Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Thomas Schmitt" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>>> what should i do with hald and O_EXCL ?
>>>       
>> I assume your successful burns were via
>> growisofs. Afaik it opens the device file with
>> option O_EXCL. See man 2 open for usage.
>> The meaning of O_EXCL on Linux storage device
>> files is fewly documented:
>> A further open(O_EXCL|O_RDWR) will fail as
>> long as there is an open file descriptor with
>> O_EXCL|O_RDWR.
>>     
>
> I did already mention that using O_EXCL is not an
> option for libscg and cdrtools as using O_EXCL would
> causes other problems that are even less tolerable.
>   

I'm curious, I'll accept that you have tried this and found some really 
bad behavior, but what is less tolerable than burning a series of 
coasters? I think growisofs uses O_EXCL and I don't recall any behavior 
after burning which made me unhappy.

In your experience, what breaks?

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