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

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"Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:45:32AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > If you did try to understand the reason why I did introduce the POSIX
> > claim, you would know that if Linux did try to follow the POSIX rule,
> > a side effect would be that removable devices need to have a stable 
> > mapping in the kernel
>
> It is _not_ a POSIX rule, as I and others have shown.  You claimed it
> was required by POSIX, but you are quite clearly incorrect.  It has
> never worked that way with Unix systems, and POSIX was always designed
> to codify existing practice.  On Unix systems fixed disks would and
> did have their devices numbering schemes move around under a number of
> conditions.

If you believe this, pleace give evidence.

I was quoting POSIX documents which prove my claims......
Jörg

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