Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 03:08:51 -0800 (PST) From: brian@mpress.com To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: workman-atapi port - should I reupload it? Message-ID: <19970113110851.23343.qmail@mpress.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112185908.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jan 12, 97 06:59:08 pm"
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> 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). > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de writes: > 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. Curiouser: the standard workman in packages-current/x11 does indeed work fine with my ATAPI CDROM drive. I guess NAME workman - play audio compact discs on a SCSI CD player from the man page must scare people away from that version. -- Brian Litzinger brian@mpress.com
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