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

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

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

> >
> >On Solaris, adding a new controler always asigns this new controler a new
> >higher ID (except for the case when the sysadmin explicitly requests different 
> >behavior).
>
> What if the OS runs out of next-higher IDs?

????

Do you believe that an int32_t is not sufficient?

Jörg

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