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Re: default config for cdrom links

To: Gary Shea <shea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: default config for cdrom links
From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:39:19 -0700
Cc: Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Gary Shea writes:
> Russell Coker (russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > The default config section for cdrom links doesn't work if uncommented.  The
> > following extract from the Debian patch shows what needs to be changed.
> >
> > -#REGISTER      ^cdrom/cdrom0$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink cdroms/cdrom0 cdrom
> > -#UNREGISTER    ^cdrom/cdrom0$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrom
> > +# create the standard /dev/cdrom symlink
> > +REGISTER       ^cdroms/cdrom0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink cdroms/cdrom0 cdrom
> > +UNREGISTER     ^cdroms/cdrom0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrom
> 
> Interesting... in my Mandrake 8.1 distribution the directory name is
> right.  Not very nice if they didn't propagate the fix back.

Please contact whoever is responsible in Mandrake for devfsd packaging
and point out this oversight.

I'll fix this for the next devfsd release.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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