Lee Revell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:09 -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: > > Apparently O_EXCL was added by Ubuntu and Debian to stop > > burns being corrupted by hald polling the device while a disc is > > being burned. > > IO priorities are the correct solution... No, they are not. The correct solution is to implement "hald" in a _cooperative_ way like e.g. vold on Solaris. The main point is not to poll to frequent (Solaris does once everz 3 seconds) and to use SCSI commands only that to not interrupt or disturb CD/DVD-writing. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - 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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