Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262016AbVCIXbl (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:31:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262075AbVCIXaT (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:30:19 -0500 Received: from mirapoint2.TIS.CWRU.Edu ([129.22.104.47]:56150 "EHLO mirapoint2.tis.cwru.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262016AbVCIX2h (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:28:37 -0500 From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org, misc@list.smarden.org, supervision@list.skarnet.org, mkettler@evi-inc.com, nix@esperi.org.uk Subject: Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa In-Reply-To: <20050309152958.GB4042@ixeon.local> (George Georgalis's message of "Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:29:59 -0500") Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? References: <20050303214023.GD1251@ixeon.local> <6.2.1.2.0.20050303165334.038f32a0@192.168.50.2> <20050303224616.GA1428@ixeon.local> <871xaqb6o0.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20050308165814.GA1936@ixeon.local> <871xap9dfg.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20050309152958.GB4042@ixeon.local> Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, users@spamassassin.apache.org, misc@list.smarden.org, supervision@list.skarnet.org, mkettler@evi-inc.com, nix@esperi.org.uk Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:28:35 -0500 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 956 Lines: 25 "George Georgalis" wrote: > It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs > back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and > mplayer with 2.6.10, now too. The /proc/kmsg problem happens because the kernel now checks for permission at read() instead of open(). The /dev/rtc problem seems to be a different beast. > while read file; do mplayer $file ; done > Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied > > for file in `cat mediafiles.txt`; do mplayer $file ; done > > works. To simplify, what about these two: mplayer foo.mpg mplayer foo.mpg < mediafiles.txt You might try strace'ing both cases and see how they compare. paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/