>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
>> I cannot prevent you from broken Linux installations!
>>
>> The linux kernel people still have propblems with interfaces and make thanges that
>> break binary compatibility when going to more recent Linux versions.
>> Why do you believe that a cdrecord that has been compiled on 2.4 will run on 2.2?
>Hard to believe that the bug with cdwrite not detecting the o/s version
>and either quitting or using available features is still around.
It seems you don't know how autoconf works.....
Autoconf checks all interfaces and then creates an include file with defines
based on the tests. This is static and reflects the ability of the OS and compile
environment whter autoconf did run. Then cdrecord compiles using these definiteions.
If you later doengrade parts of the OS installation (in out case the kernel only)
you are doning confuse things that never should be expected to work.
>> Linux needed close to 10 years to finally support mmap() (ther OS like SunOS
>> did this since 1987). Cdrecord's outoconf chooses the best interfaces of the OS.
>> SVS shared mem is outdated and badly implemented on Linux (too many restrictions).
>> mmap is the modern method to get shared memory but Linux didn't support is before
>> November 2000.
>Obviously it did NOT pick the best interface, it tried to use the wrong
>one. And since you love to tell people not to use "obsolete" versions,
>why don't you tell them to update to a current Linux as well?
YOu are definitely wrong! mmap() _is_ the best interface for the OS environment
where cdrecord in our case has been compiled. If somebody later changes parts
of the OS environment he is going to brake this OS environment and must
be aware that many programs will not run anymore.
>Most people don't (won't) use alpha software, so you should expect most
>users to be running the latest stable release, not one of the "a"
>releases which distributors correctly avoid.
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J�rg
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