From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 31 12:22:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA25350 for current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:22:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA25345 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:22:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA16839; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:21:40 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA26962; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:21:40 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id VAA00526; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:02:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603311902.VAA00526@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:02:40 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603311738.JAA13197@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Mar 31, 96 09:38:10 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Traina wrote: > Our floppy driver is not smart enough about write-protected media at > open(2) time. > > That is a bug. Please file a PR Filing a PR won't help very much. The floppy driver is in bad need for a rewrite. If you're willing to rewrite it, and submitting PRs would accelerate this process, i could immediately submit half a dozen PRs for it. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)