Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>]

"Jim Crilly" <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net> writes:

> 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?

And, if we are here, what's wrong with hald using O_EXCL to not
interrupt any other program (does hald need to check the media
if it's in use)? I assume the problem wouldn't exist with hald
using O_EXCL and cdrecord not (yet) using it, would it?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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