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

From: Paul Jakma
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 16:44:18 EST


On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Albert Cahalan wrote:

For Joerg's reference, open() goes like this:

1. the /dev name
2. the inode
3. the device number
4. pointers to structs full of function pointers

Nowhere is it in B/T/L form.

And, for whatever it's worth, TTBOMK Solaris does not arrange SCSI into a B/T/L address hierarchy internally either.

regards,
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