On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 06:43:07PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > hal already uses O_EXCL for opening the device node when it comes to > optical drives. It is a bug in cdparanoia if it doesn't. cdparanoia tries to be portable. O_EXCL on a device node meaning exclusive ownership is an entirely Linux extension (and 2.6 at that for the general case)