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

[Joerg Schilling]

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The user should use what the OS uses. Cdrecord, or libscg, respectively, 
> can invent any numbers it wants. IOW, "we" (read: I) would like to see
>   cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc on Linux

Unsupported

> I am not sure if I understood your other mail on the cdrecord ML, but if 
> the proper syntax would be
>   cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc:@
> then
>   /dev/hdc
> could just be transparently turned into
>   /dev/hdc:@
> somewhere within the getopt part.

See complete description, the :@ is not just for fun....

> for other OS:
>   cdrecord -dev=/dev/acd0 on FreeBSD

Will not work

>   cdrecord -dev=E: on Win32

Will only wbe doable with mapping effort in a few cases.

>     cdrecord -dev=\\cdrom0 if someone really wants for Win32

	cdrecord dev=cdrom0 	works on Solaris because "cdrom0"
				is a valid nick name for the drive.

>   cdrecord -dev=/dev/c0t0s0d0 on Solaris

May work sometimes.

Jörg

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