Hi, Seth Kurtzberg: > If you are willing to tolerate deadlock, a simple kernel patch suffices. > Such a solution is, surely, ugly, but may be a better alternative than no > solution at all.
By deadlock you mean that both contestants are denied access ? Not that anything gets stuck if it wants non-blocking i/o, i hope. Such a solution would indeed be an improvement. But is it beautiful enough to replace the current behavior in the main stream kernels ? I.e. can we convince the decisive people to accept it ? It would not help much if we had to prescribe kernel patching before proper burning of CD and DVD is possible. I myself would frown on that and rather do what has to be done to make my /dev/s[gr][0-9]* safe. No automats groping my drives. Basta. But the goal of cdrskin is to be installable on any modern Linux distro. So i can neither demand people to calm down their autmats nor can i demand them to create custom kernels. Nevertheless and anyway: What does this patch do ? Is it explainable to userland programmers ? Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
