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

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> >>>Cdrecord is a program that needs to be able to send any SCSI command as 
>> >>>it needs to be able to add new vendor unique commands for new drive/feature
>> >>>support.
>> >>
>> >>Right, but evidently it does not need the kernel to invent numbering.
>> >>dev=/dev/hdc works today.
>> > 
>> > Maybe, I will need to enforce to use official libscg device names in future....
>>
>> To burden users with yet another naming policy?
>
>Well, I am open to have an unbiased discussion that may have any result but 
>the parties should allow each other to convince by arguments.
>
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

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.

for other OS:
  cdrecord -dev=/dev/acd0 on FreeBSD
  cdrecord -dev=E: on Win32
    cdrecord -dev=\\cdrom0 if someone really wants for Win32
  cdrecord -dev=/dev/c0t0s0d0 on Solaris
(Don't shoot me. I unfortunately have to make a guess, since I have 
not done yet any cdrecord'ing[1] on OS other than Linux.)

[1] Well with Nero, but that's not cdrecord, as in "cdrecord'ing". :)


Jan Engelhardt
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