Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers
Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 06:15:53 +0200
Richard Gooch wrote:
> if all your CD-ROMs devices are unloaded and you have module
> autoloading, then to find all CD-ROMs on the system, you just do:
> opendir ("/dev/ide/cd");
> loop;
> opendir ("/dev/sr");
> loop;
>
> and your directory scanning code knows that each and every entry
> (besides "." and "..":-) is a Genuine CD-ROM[tm] that actually exists
> on your system.
Ugh, it will miss the _other_ CD-ROMs in your system.
/dev/parport/cd
/dev/pcmcia/cd
/dev/usb/cd
Doesn't look like the right way to me.
-- Jamie
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