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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:25:51 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        uwe@ptc.spbu.ru (Valeriy E. Ushakov), stable@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: I'll be rolling a 4.1.1 release on September 25th
Message-ID:  <200009181725.LAA09476@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200009172038.WAA86368@freebsd.dk>
References:  <20000916174845.B28031@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <200009172038.WAA86368@freebsd.dk>

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[ Sorry, this one jumped out at me.... ]

> > I raised these issue before but got no reply.
> > 
> > What are the reasons that VCD patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~luoqi/
> > is not commited?  It's been around for almost two years now and people
> > use it successfully.  But reapplying the patch after each cvsup is
> > kind of PITA.
> 
> Because I dont favour the ioctl interface, its no longer needed...
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> 
> > If /dev/acd*t* is going to be the answer then can this be stated
> > directly, please, to cut the confusion.  BTW, as I wrote just few days
> > ago, acd*t* support was MFC'ed but relevant changes to MAKEDEV to
> > create those devices were not.
> 
> No its not, you simply open /dev/acdNc and set the blocksize to
> what you need with the CDRIOCSETBLKSIZE ioctl and reads the blocks
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> woth a normal read from the device....

So, do you like ioctl(), or not?  First you say it's not needed, then
you say open a device and use ioctl() on it?

You can't have it both ways. :) :) :)



Nate


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