From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
7eggert@gmx.de, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Dirk <noisyb@gmx.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH/FIX for drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:41:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E471F2.5000003@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060817132309.GX13639@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-17 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-08-17 12:27 ` PATCH/FIX for drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c Bodo Eggert
2006-08-17 12:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 12:31 ` Bodo Eggert
2006-08-18 12:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 16:45 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 13:39 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 13:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-08-17 13:41 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-08-17 13:54 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-08-17 14:38 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-18 12:39 ` Bodo Eggert
2006-08-17 13:48 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 14:36 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-08-17 14:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-19 17:52 ` Oleg Verych
2006-08-21 17:31 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-08-16 17:26 Dirk
2006-08-16 17:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-16 18:37 ` Dirk
2006-08-16 18:37 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-08-16 18:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-16 19:30 ` Dirk
2006-08-16 19:08 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-16 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-17 7:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
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