FC3 disappointment: KsCD locks system; grip; CDROM in general.

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 06:43:07PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> hal already uses O_EXCL for opening the device node when it comes to
> optical drives. It is a bug in cdparanoia if it doesn't.

cdparanoia tries to be portable. O_EXCL on a device node meaning exclusive
ownership is an entirely Linux extension (and 2.6 at that for the general case)