On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 08:34 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > 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) > I know - so is cdrecord but we patch that one; having cdparanoia not using O_EXCL would then be a RH bug, not an upstream bug. Still a bug though. Cheers, David