From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 6 5:46:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC671500A for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 05:46:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA98667; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:46:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Message-Id: <199910061246.IAA98667@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19991006130508.O24928@florence.pavilion.net> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:46:17 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Josef Karthauser Subject: Re: New command for cdcontrol(1) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Sergey Shkonda Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Oct-99 Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 01:02:14PM +0300, Sergey Shkonda wrote: >> I'm using this patch for cdcontrol(1): >> >> cdid Print the xmcd's CD id. > > Is the method used by xmcd used by anything else or is it just _a_ > method. > What's the algorithm that the cddb boys use? If it's the same then I > believe that this is a useful patch. If it's different - it should > be > made same :) The method used by xmcd is a specific method specified by cddb, and the comments in the patch he posted look just like the source code that holds the authoritative algorithm for getting this id, so I believe it is the proper algorithm. I also think it is a useful patch, btw. > Joe --- John Baldwin -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message