> John Kamp has run across a libhd applcation from Suse that hit this bug.
> It's some kind of hardware detection application. It opens devices with
> O_NONBLOCK. But, it doesn't in fact use the DAC960 pass-through commands.
It should be checking major/minor first - rightfully or wrongly (I'd
favour wrongly) open has side effects on multiple devices.
> The difficulty is that the Mylex application is available only in binary
> form. Mylex is very secretive about its controller commands.
> It would be nice to be able to create a library that an application
> could call to perform high-level operations, and the library would
> construct the pass-through commands and pass them to the driver.
> Then, anyone could write their own GUI.
Or someone could just stick a command dumper in the driver. Thats how I
wrote ps and a few other utils for my aacraid 8)
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