>> It's not about device discovery, hald is polling removable devices every 2s >> to see if new media was inserted and when it polls a CD drive that's >> currently burning a disc it causes problems. It's documented in Debian bug >> #262678. > >Ok. So what's wrong with cdrecord using O_EXCL (and maybe retrying >for few seconds) so no other program (hald or, say, a user mistaking >a device) can interrupt it? > I would say we all forgot to RTFM. Because O_EXCL does nothing *unless* O_CREAT is specified, which probably *is not* specified in cdrecord or hal. There is no reason to have hal or cdrecord create a device node - which you can't do with open() anyway. Jan Engelhardt -- | Software Engineer and Linux/Unix Network Administrator | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ | jengelh's site, http://jengelh.hopto.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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