Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2004-08-10 at 15:33, Lee Revell wrote:
> I hate to derail a good flame-fest, but this would be extremely useful,
> for more than burning CDs.  Anytime you are dealing with a SCHED_FIFO
> process a bug can lock the machine, this would be useful for hacking
> jackd for example.
> 
> If someone wants to code this up I and the other people on jackit-devel
> would gladly test it.

How much is this actually needed and how much is it just a user
debugging method problem. Having done real time stuff on VMS (save
the tears) we always had a policy that one serial console was a shell
at highest priority and nobody ever used that one top priority.

That gave you an emergency control channel.

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