Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net> wrote:


> other half doesn't have it probably has a bad user interface. You
> know that if a program uses a naming convention different from ALL
> the rest of programs is because the program has a problem. You know
> that if the only UNIX program out there that doesn't use /dev entries
> to talk to devices is cdrecord, the problem *probably* is in
> cdrecord, and not in UNIX...

So why do you like to introduce a different naming scheme?

Look into the real world and you will find that most SCSI related programs
use a namischscheme that is either identical to what cdrecord does
or a very similar one.

Jörg

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