RFC: ntdll: Implement CDROM_GetInterfaceInfo() on Mac OS (try 2)

[Alexandre Julliard]

Charles Davis <cdavis at mymail.mines.edu> writes:

> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> Charles Davis <cdavis at mymail.mines.edu> writes:
>> 
>>> Or, maybe not. I could be totally wrong about that. Maybe what you
>>> really want is for me to get an FD from mountmgr so I can talk to it at
>>> will. I don't know.
>>>
>>> We can even add the FD to mountmgr's run loop (via a CFFileDescriptor
>>> object), or if you prefer, we can do the traditional select() or poll()
>>> loop. (But why spawn another thread just for that?)
>> 
>> No, nothing of the kind. You wouldn't talk to mountmgr at all. All you
>> would do is do an ioctl on an NT device, and that would magically get
>> routed to the right place. Look at how IOCTL_STORAGE_GET_DEVICE_NUMBER
>> is handled for a hard disk device for instance.
>> 
> OK, now I'm thoroughly confused. What's the purpose of getting an FD
> from mountmgr in all this? And what the hell am I trying to do in the
> first place?! (Sorry for the language, but I just don't understand what
> you're getting at.)

You don't need an fd for that specific ioctl, if you implement it in
mountmgr. You need it for the other ones that are still done on the
client side, and for normal I/O calls.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org