From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 14:23:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 14:23:39 -0400 Received: from [136.159.55.21] ([136.159.55.21]:23967 "EHLO vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 14:23:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:22:50 -0600 Message-Id: <200105161822.f4GIMo509185@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> From: Richard Gooch To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Alan Cox , Ingo Oeser , Linus Torvalds , Neil Brown , Jeff Garzik , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , viro@math.psu.edu Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <200105152141.f4FLff300686@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > 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. > > Then check for `/cd' at the end instead of `cd' :-) Argh! What I wrote in text is what I meant to say. The code didn't match. No wonder people seemed to be missing the point. So the line of code I actually meant was: if (strcmp (buffer + len - 3, "/cd") != 0) { Regards, Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca