how to have hal be selective

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Mon Nov 29 08:13:26 UTC 2004


> That would *really* surprise me. 
> 
> Remember: when polling on optical drives, hald uses O_EXCL and that
> should make open(2) fail with EBUSY if someone else has opened that
> device O_EXCL - and all cd recording software in the Fedora distribution
> should do that otherwise it's a bug.

you missed the point. Hal polls the *other* IDE device on the bus.
ANd that polling can take long enough so that the bus is locked too long
and you get a buffer underrun.

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