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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants
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Alan Cox writes:
> > 	len = readlink ("/proc/self/3", buffer, buflen);
> > 	if (strcmp (buffer + len - 2, "cd") != 0) {
> > 		fprintf (stderr, "Not a CD-ROM! Bugger off.\n");
> > 		exit (1);
> 
> And on my box cd is the cabbage dicer whoops

Actually, no, because it's guaranteed that a trailing "/cd" is a
CD-ROM. That's the standard.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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