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

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> > If it's /dev/cdrw, then it's /dev/cdrw, not '1,0,0'.
>> > 
>> > Should we make a poll ?

select(), poll(), epoll(), anyone? (SCNR)

>Do we need to expose IDE master/slave, primary/secondary concepts in Linux?
>
AFAICS, we do. hda is always primary slave, etc. With the SCSI layer it's
(surprisingly) the other way round, sda just happens to be the first disk
inserted (SCA, USB, etc.)


Jan Engelhardt
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