--- 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
