[Debburn-devel] Re: Bug#390353: wodim: Writng to CD fails with "permission denied" on hard disk's sg device

Peter Samuelson peter at p12n.org
Tue Oct 3 15:54:35 UTC 2006


[Albert Cahalan]
> >> +       // try to reopen locked/busy devices up to five times
> >
> >C++-style-comment.
> 
> No, a BCPL-style comment. C supports them since 1999,
> but many compilers (including Visual C and gcc) supported
> them long before the standard was passed.

Well, Eduard has been compiling on AIX with the vendor compiler, which
apparently doesn't support //.

I like // comments too, but AIX 5 is not exactly dead.  (It _is_ POSIX,
so it really should not be painful to support in general.)  And your
suggestion of doing manual preprocessing via sed strikes me as a cure
worse than the disease.
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