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

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 08:34 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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)
> 

I know - so is cdrecord but we patch that one; having cdparanoia not
using O_EXCL would then be a RH bug, not an upstream bug. Still a bug
though.

Cheers,
David