Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2006-02-21 08:32:44 GMT (3 years, 19 weeks, 16 hours and 33 minutes ago)
On Mon, Feb 20 2006, D. Hazelton wrote: > On Monday 20 February 2006 11:05, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Bill Davidsen <davidsen <at> tmr.com> wrote: > > > >If you did ever try to write reliable code that has to deal with this > > > > kind of oddities, you would understand that it is sometimes better to > > > > wait and to inform related people about the problems they caused. > > > > > > This ground has been covered. And at least in the case of filtering > > > commands, that had to be done quickly and you know it. > > > > We all know that filtering is not needeed to fix a bug. It could have been > > implemented completely relaxed and without any time pressure as the bug > > that needed fixing could have been fixed by just requiring a R/W FD to > > allow SG_IO. > > In one post you complain that SG_IO is unneeded on /dev/hd* and related > devices and in this one you say that it's all that would have been needed to > fix a bug! > > Joerg, I think it's time you stop dodging questions, shifting blame and all > the tactics you've been using and admit that you just don't like Linux. After > all, every time you are asked to provide a technical basis for an argument > you have three main tactics - Dodge it entirely, misquote POSIX or say "But > Solaris does it this way". Please stop CC'ing me on this pointless thread! Dunno who put me back, but I have absolutely ZERO interesting in reading any of it anymore. I'd rather get a root canal while listening to Michael Bolton and getting my right leg sawed off. -- Jens Axboe