In message <007901be8ff9$656e2ae0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
m writes:
>Kai,
>Thanks for response.
>I don't care about portability.
select(2) wasn't portable, although it made life infinitely easier and
is now a standard. snprintf(3) wasn't portable, although it's the only
reasonable way to avoid buffer overruns in the general case when one
wants to use stdio with a string destination, and it's showing up
everywhere.
If something's useful, it will be adapted in some form or another.
An early-end-of-tape warning _could_ be useful for certain applications.
>Does Linux provide any proprietary way to utilize that 'early
>notification' End-Of-Tape SCSI feature?
>I really, really need it. Any suggestion on what could be
>modified to achieve it?
Add a second set of minor numbers with different semantics (you may want to
use them with programs like dd, so an ioctl doesn't work) the same way
most unices have both call-out and dial-in tty devices; or implement
an ioctl.
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