> It is the right way. The concept is still valid. Just extend my
> example code. It wasn't meant to be complete, just enough to convey
> the idea. Did I really have to spell that out?
Why not improve slightly devfs to have subdirectories such as "cdroms" (by
classes of devices ["it's a CDROM"], not classes of interfaces ["it's a
cdrom which you plug through USB"]), which would contain symlinks to the
directories which might hold cdrom devices ?
(ie : /dev/cdroms having the following symlinks :
/dev/ide/cd
/dev/sr
/dev/usb/cd
...
)
Now, a program wanting to enumerate cdroms would just do something in the
lines of
for cddir in readdir("/dev/cdrom"):
for cd in readdir(cddir):
#do something useful
Whoopla, this is pretty much static, so it may very well belong to the tar
solution, devfsd or an init script.
-- Cyrille
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