Re: PATCH/FIX for drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c

[Jeff Garzik]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Why can't O_EXCL mean that the kernel prevents anyone else from issuing
> ioctl's to the device?  One would think that is the meaning of exlusive.
> That way when the burning program opens the device with O_EXCL, no one
> else can screw it up while it is open.  If it happens to be polled by
> hal when the burning program tries to open it, it can just wait and
> retry again until it gets it open.

Such use of O_EXCL is a weird and non-standard behavior.

	Jeff


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