(LINUX) Paranoia is a library project that provides a platform independent, unified, robust interface for packet-command based devices. In the case of CDROM drives for example, handling and programming cdrom drives becomes identical whether on Solaris or Linux, or if the Linux drive is SCSI, ATAPI or on the parallel port. In this way, Paranoia is similar to Joerg Schilling's SCG library.
In addition to device/platform unification, the library provides tools for automatically identifying devices, and intelligent handling/correction of errors at all levels of the interface. On top of a generic low-level packet command layer, Paranoia implements high-level error-correcting interfaces for tasks such as CDDA where broken or vastly non-standard devices are the rule, rather than the exception.
The Paranoia libraries are incomplete; the first release for use will be Paranoia IV, to be bundled with cdparanoia alpha release 10. Programming documentation for Paranoia IV will appear shortly on the documentation page as Programming with Paranoia IV. Programmers interested in contributing to Paranoia IV should read the heading Paranoia IV development information.
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