What's happened to CDIOCREADAUDIO & friends?

[Vladimir Kushnir]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Soren Schmidt wrote:

> I disagree, but that another matter..
>
> How about just doing:
>
> dd if=/dev/acdXtY of=trackY bs=2352
>
> Now that cant be simpler and is already present...
>

In XMMS/XINE/cdda2wav/cdparanoia/...? Lots of programs depend on this
interface, and not just ports (== patches), but programs. I'd thought the
right way would be to _first_ announce this greakage and give at least
maintainers time to write down patches, and _then_ break all those ports.
How about POLA?

> > Together with sys/cdio.h, where both ioc_read_audio and CDIOCREADAUDIO are
> > declared
>
> I'll get rid of those...
>
Again, a pity. What benefits do we gain here? Speed? CDDA extraction never
required all that much of it, and to be honest the difference will hardly
be measurable. The only thing it will give is (once again) an interface
completely different from other OSs (== some extra pain for developers ==
fewer applications).

Regards,
Vladimir