21 Feb
2017
21 Feb
'17
7:47 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017, at 05:30, Joerg Schilling wrote:
*) star e.g. implements support for Linux specific
file meta data
Which interfaces for accessing these have been broken by which versions
of Linux?
and cdrtools e.g need to implement pass through SCSI.
Requiring "pass through SCSI" for a CD burner violates the UNIX
philosophy that everything is a file (which implies that reading and
writing data be implemented, where possible, through the read and write
system calls rather than through special interfaces specific to a device
type).
So does requiring SCSI bus numbers rather than device filenames.