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

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

Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:

> >If you did ever try to write reliable code that has to deal with this kind of
> >oddities, you would understand that it is sometimes better to wait and to inform
> >related people about the problems they caused.
> >  
> >
> This ground has been covered. And at least in the case of filtering 
> commands, that had to be done quickly and you know it.

We all know that filtering is not needeed to fix a bug. It could have been
implemented completely relaxed and without any time pressure as the bug
that needed fixing could have been fixed by just requiring a R/W FD to allow
SG_IO. 

Jörg

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