Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 13:22:50 EST


Geert Uytterhoeven writes:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Alan Cox writes:
> > > > len = readlink ("/proc/self/3", buffer, buflen);
> > > > if (strcmp (buffer + len - 2, "cd") != 0) {
> > > > fprintf (stderr, "Not a CD-ROM! Bugger off.\n");
> > > > exit (1);
> > >
> > > And on my box cd is the cabbage dicer whoops
> >
> > Actually, no, because it's guaranteed that a trailing "/cd" is a
> > CD-ROM. That's the standard.
>
> Then check for `/cd' at the end instead of `cd' :-)

Argh! What I wrote in text is what I meant to say. The code didn't
match. No wonder people seemed to be missing the point. So the line of
code I actually meant was:
        if (strcmp (buffer + len - 3, "/cd") != 0) {

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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