Can't burn CD when hald is running

[Dorin Lazar]

On Monday 05 July 2004 12:27, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Having cd burning applications lock the device using hal is the plan
> in the future, yes. That way, hal knows not to poll for media when
> the device is locked. Of course, this is only an advisory lock, any
> application not using hal could ruin everything like we do today; oh
> well.
  Perhaps the solution is not to have hal oversee the locking of the device, 
but the ::ioctl calls to fail. I guess that would make everyone happy (well, 
everyone who checks the return value of the ::ioctl call).
  Dorin


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