Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750732AbWHPSop (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:44:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750786AbWHPSop (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:44:45 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:10694 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750732AbWHPSoo (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:44:44 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH/FIX for drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c From: Arjan van de Ven To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Dirk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060816183707.GD13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <44E3552A.6010705@gmx.net> <20060816183707.GD13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:44:19 +0200 Message-Id: <1155753859.3023.127.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 914 Lines: 25 On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 14:37 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:26:02PM +0200, Dirk wrote: > > I have changed a message that didn't clearly tell the user what was goin > > on... > > > > Please have a look! > > Perhaps the real problem is that some @#$@#$ user space task is > constantly trying to mount the disc while something else is trying to > write to it. > > gnome and kde both seem very eager to implement such things. perhaps > there should be a way to prevent any access by such processes while > writing to the disc. there is. O_EXCL works for this. Any sane desktop app and cd burning app use O_EXCL already for this purpose... - 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/