CD locking (was Re: is magicdev evil?)

[Owen Taylor]

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 05:34, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> I took out O_EXCL from the cd burning apps, because the errata kernels
> changed their behaviour regarding to O_EXCL, so that it was impossible
> to burn a CD in any case.
> This has to be reworked with the kernel people.
> 
> And btw, apps accessing the device have to open with O_EXCL also...
> In an ideal world, O_EXCL would block all other open attempts, so that
> it is sufficient to O_EXCL with the CD burning apps... sadly there is no
> such mechanism (yet?).

Well, magicdev still has the O_EXCL patch in it, even if it was removed
from the burning apps. I'm not sure if that mismatch is making the
current problems worse.

One step forward, two steps back...
						Owen