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

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

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:

> >> > 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?

Correct.

Jörg

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