Re: Window manager - implementation bug/feature ???

Jim Paris (jimJTAN.COM)
Sat, 9 Oct 1999 01:42:49 -0400

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> But still, unless I missed it, he never said that WAS his cd-rom..
> Even though most OEM machines come with CDROM on master secondary (hdc)..

The messages I've seen on this topic seem to be implying that it's a bad
thing for it to give read/write permission to /dev/hdc in case that's
not the CD-ROM. Valid point, but have you ever considered the (highly
likely) possibility that the permissions were actually set on
/dev/cdrom, which would happen to be symlinked to whatever device is
your actual CD-ROM? The fact that the permissions were changed on
/dev/hdc on one machine doesn't mean that /dev/hdc would get touched on
others..

-jim

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