On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:42 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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.
Except it isn't, this work has long sense been done.
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Peter