CD locking (was Re: is magicdev evil?)
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Oct 6 22:52:10 UTC 2003
Owen Taylor (otaylor at redhat.com) said:
> Harald - what's the situation here supposed to be currently?
> I thought that we figured something out where:
>
> - All CD burnings open the device with O_EXCL
> - Apps accessing the device otherwise (magicdev, etc.) do nothing
> special
>
> Was going to fix the problem, but I don't see anything in the current
> xcdroast package (0.98a13) to open devices O_EXCL.
xcdroast never opens the CD device itself, it just calls cdrecord,
as I recall. So the locking is just in cdrecord.
Bill
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