"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
