--- Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> not clearly so. there are very few resources
> accessed via a file
> descriptor that require this being done.

You think? Try unmounting a filesystem or unloading
the ide-cd kernel module if (say) xscreensaver has
been spawned by (say) xine, but xine has carelessly
leaked a file descriptor to a movie file, DVD device
etc. (But not with current versions of xine... ;-)

> the fact that an application has to understand this
> only adds to the
> problems with the block-on-open design.

Save me from application programmers who don't
understand what they're doing... ;-/!

Chris


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