On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 05:50:57PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> If you don't want to be portable you may do what you like. However,
> my SCSI lib does make things easier.
Correct. But you cant force people to use it.
> But Linux is not the world. We are currently discussing problems of
> creating a easy to lern/use user interface for a highly portable user level
> SCSI application like cdrecord and cdda2wav.
No. We are discussing an alternative to the current sg implementation in
Linux. Of course we should look at other platforms, but when talking about a
new interface to the kernel, it does not matter in any kind how other
platforms do the thing (except if we use *exactly* the same method as on
another platform, to be compatible with that one).
If we dont (and you can't tell me that there is a highly portable method
that works on many other platforms - remember, on kernel level, not
library), then you will need some library in any case, and how that library
handles things is not important for the discussion now.
> It seems that you missed the main problem we are talking about. It is always
> easy to find a solution that works fine on only one OS.
Since we want to modify the interface to the kernel, we do not need more -
or do you propose to implement the same interface for other OSs?
> The methods cdrecord provides help you to allow this in a similar or equal
> way on a wide variety of Operating systems.
Correct. However, that method has nothing to do woth the lowlevel interface
used to talk to the kernel.
cu
Michael
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