Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Alan Cox writes:
> > >   len = readlink ("/proc/self/3", buffer, buflen);
> > >   if (strcmp (buffer + len - 2, "cd") != 0) {
> > >           fprintf (stderr, "Not a CD-ROM! Bugger off.\n");
> > >           exit (1);
> > 
> > And on my box cd is the cabbage dicer whoops
> 
> Actually, no, because it's guaranteed that a trailing "/cd" is a
> CD-ROM. That's the standard.

Then  check for `/cd' at the end instead of `cd' :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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