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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 ?

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