Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932452AbWHRMpo (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:45:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932458AbWHRMpo (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:45:44 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:56258 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932452AbWHRMpn (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:45:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:39:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> To: Helge Hafting cc: Lennart Sorensen , Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , 7eggert@gmx.de, Arjan van de Ven , Dirk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH/FIX for drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c In-Reply-To: <44E47F54.3000300@aitel.hist.no> Message-ID: References: <6Kxns-7AV-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <6Kytd-1g2-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <6KyCQ-1w7-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <1155821951.15195.85.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060817132309.GX13639@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <44E471F2.5000003@garzik.org> <20060817135431.GE13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <44E47F54.3000300@aitel.hist.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@web.de X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:9b3b2cc444a07783f194c895a09f1de9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1003 Lines: 21 On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: > None on the file level I hope, for it will surely get abused. > Windows have exclusive open for example, and there acrobat reader > locks the pdf file it views, so you can't make a new version without > killing acrobat first. (And then you have to restart it to > view the new file.) Stupid in the extreme. Fortunately, acrobat can't > do that on linux where there is no (easy) opportunity to do so. The default open mode on network-aware DOS-systems will automatically aquire an exclusive lock in order to maintain DOS 2.0 compatibility, and the filename is part of the file's metadata. Windows seems to have kept this behaviour. -- "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." -David Hackworth - 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/