Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 22:32:02 -0500 From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: workman-atapi port - should I reupload it? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112223202.rhh@elmer.ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112185908.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Jan 12, 1997 18:59:08 %2B0100 References: <Mutt.19970112112901.rhh@elmer.ct.picker.com> <Mutt.19970112185908.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch:
|As Randall Hopper wrote:
|> In 2.1 there was a workman-atapi port that worked & continues to work
|> great for me (I'm on 2.2-ALPHA now).
|
|Curious: why is there a separate ATAPI port required? The preferred
|API for handling CD requests in FreeBSD is using the ioctl interface
|(CDIO*). They are supposed to be device-independant, and leave all
|the work to the respective device drivers.
|
|Since workman isn't setuid root (which would IMHO be required to issue
|direct SCSI commands), i assume it's using that API.
I just re-checked the current workman port (workman-1.3.tgz in
packages-current) to verify nothing's changed:
> ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/workman
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 98304 Dec 18 15:14 /usr/X11R6/bin/workman*
> strings /usr/X11R6/bin/workman | grep ^/dev
/dev/rcd0c
> workman
Warning: /var/run/workman.pid: Permission denied
As root, please run
chmod 666 /dev/rcd0c
to give yourself permission to access the CD-ROM device.
Still SCSI-specific, not setuid root, but needs access to the CD device.
In my workman built from the workman-atapi port:
> strings /opt/pkg/workman/bin/workman | grep ^/dev
/dev/rwcd0c
and I have it setuid root for that reason.
Randall
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