Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:59:27 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c atapi-cd.h Message-ID: <29732.1195235967@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:54:21 MST." <473DD94D.8050605@samsco.org>
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In message <473DD94D.8050605@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes: >> The simplest way to do this, is probably to overload ENOENT or some >> other currently undefined errno for this effect. > >But then why not have g_access be able to communicate the ability to >access the device independent from the ability to access the media? >Seems like both of these questions are "access" questions. Because that is a lot more work for no benefit I can see ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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