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

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>> > Well, this is a deficit of the Linux kernel - not libscg.
>>
>> This is exactly what I have written -- extra effort is needed to get
>> a stable numbering (which Solaris does), but you can use a very similar
>> extra care to get stable names (which Linux with udev does).
>
>As this conceptional deficite in Linux causes Linux to break POSIX
>compliance e.g. for stat(2) with hot plugged devices, people with 

The struct stat->st_rdev field need to be stable too to comply to POSIX?

>sufficient background knowledge should know that Linux tried to fix a 
>low level bug at a high level ignoring that the mid-level is still broken.


Jan Engelhardt
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