Once upon a time Derrick 'dman' Hudson said... > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:35:48AM -0500, H. S. wrote: > | Albert Dengg wrote: > | > | >Well, for the first point, the ownership of /dev/hdc: > | >Who tells the installer that /dev/hdc is a cdrom drive? > | > | er ... isn't the automatic detection of the disks supposed to tell the > | kernel if it is a CDROM or CD-RW? > > The -kernel- knows, but that doesn't change any nodes on-disk in /dev.
Some userspace program must know too, since it is not the kernel that creates the /dev/cdrom symlink. Whatever creates that symlink should also change the target of the link to group cdrom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
