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

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> Now Linux likes to confuse people by trying to enforce a completely 
> incompatible access method.

Completely incompatible? For years, cdrecord works with it and it only
prints an utterly silly warning and also has a trivial bug in the scanning
code, causing it to stop too early.

> Note that I need to avoid unneeded efforts and for this reason, I need to wait
> 5 years until is is forseable that a recent incompatible change in Linux will
> survive long enough to spent time on it.

If this is reason, I will send you a patch fixing the trivial bugs and
annoyances, sparing you the work.

				Have a nice fortnight
-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@xxxxxx>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." -- M. Twain
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