On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 01:31:21PM -0700, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:36:47 +0000 > > Simply, it is the ninth file handle that vlc has open. ... > > > > If you look at vlc's other opened files, you will probably see that they > > are a combination of the stdio channels, control pipes (maybe) and > > libraries. > > Thanks for explaining. > > Now I still need to determine whether the wav file is open > for reading and writing or only for reading. Have you looked at the output of "strace -e open vlc ...args..."? That should show you the flags passed to the open() call including whether read-only access was requested etc.
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