Re: Coordinating concurrent users of v4l2 devices

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Hi Tom,

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 22:15, Tom Zoerner wrote:
> Even when the device is locked only for a second: when a recording
> starts during that time, it will fail (unless all recorders are made
> smart enough to attempt the open more than once)

That's a risk of using an app that does an O_EXCL open(). Users should
now that and adapt their scripts to handle it. Make it a big FAQ entry:
"your recording might fail if you've got a teletext daemon running".

Ronald

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Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux Video/Multimedia developer





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