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

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

>> 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
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