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

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Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> 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.

Mmmm, it looks like I did oversee that you did change the subject.....

I did say that stat->st_dev needs to be stable

Jörg

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