Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading
Hi,
i wrote:
> > This function shall obtain the drive status and not wait until the
> > status of the medium is decided.
mick crane wrote:
> I have noticed that people whose first language might not be english use
> "shall" as apposed to "will" or "should".
The topic has its own wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shall_and_will
In german it is "soll" (= shall/demanding), "sollte" (= should/proposing),
and "wird" (= will/predicting or shall/predicting).
I meant it in the way of technical specification of purpose.
Dan Ritter wrote:
> The English use it more than Americans do.
In school it was a big deal to distinguish "will" and "shall".
(I was very eager to forget the exact rules when nobody cared any more.)
I wrote:
> > I [...] needed several curious attempts during 2.5 years to finally
> > understand what happened.
Gene Heskett wrote:
> with better tools that I.
Only fgrep in local /usr/src/linux-source-3.16 and linux-4.1.6 and
Iceweasel were involved.
In the end it was about reading all commits to sr.c, sr_ioctl.c, and
cdrom.c since the release of kernel 2.6.18 (where i knew that the bug
was not in) up to 3.16 (where i first experienced the bug).
Like
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/drivers/scsi/sr.c
As said, i was very curious.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
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