From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jan 13 03:10:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA06078 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 03:10:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpress.com (qmailr@mpress.com [208.138.29.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id DAA06073 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 03:10:21 -0800 (PST) From: brian@mpress.com Received: (qmail 23344 invoked by uid 100); 13 Jan 1997 11:08:51 -0000 Message-ID: <19970113110851.23343.qmail@mpress.com> Subject: Re: workman-atapi port - should I reupload it? In-Reply-To: from J Wunsch at "Jan 12, 97 06:59:08 pm" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 03:08:51 -0800 (PST) Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: brian@mpress.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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