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