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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org, misc@list.smarden.org,
	supervision@list.skarnet.org, mkettler@evi-inc.com,
	nix@esperi.org.uk
Subject: Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:28:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3is40z9dy.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050309152958.GB4042@ixeon.local> (George Georgalis's message of "Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:29:59 -0500")

"George Georgalis" <george@galis.org> wrote:
> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs
> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and
> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too.

The /proc/kmsg problem happens because the kernel now checks for
permission at read() instead of open().  The /dev/rtc problem seems to
be a different beast.

> while read file; do mplayer $file ; done <mediafiles.txt
>
> Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied
>
> for file in `cat mediafiles.txt`; do mplayer $file ; done
>
> works.

To simplify, what about these two:
mplayer foo.mpg
mplayer foo.mpg < mediafiles.txt

You might try strace'ing both cases and see how they compare.


paul


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-09 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050303214023.GD1251@ixeon.local>
     [not found] ` <6.2.1.2.0.20050303165334.038f32a0@192.168.50.2>
     [not found]   ` <20050303224616.GA1428@ixeon.local>
     [not found]     ` <871xaqb6o0.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix>
2005-03-08 16:58       ` George Georgalis
2005-03-08 17:19         ` George Georgalis
2005-03-08 19:21           ` George Georgalis
2005-03-08 20:10             ` Andre Tomt
2005-03-09 13:06         ` Nix
     [not found]         ` <871xap9dfg.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix>
2005-03-09 15:29           ` George Georgalis
2005-03-09 23:28             ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2005-03-10  0:30               ` Nix
2005-03-16  3:18               ` George Georgalis
2005-03-16 22:37                 ` Paul Jarc
2005-03-17  2:03                   ` George Georgalis

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