On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Maybe I don't understand the problem but.. > > I think the problem is that you want to keep a separate buffer for each > user, ] > while the drivers you are looking at expect to have only one buffer per > device. > > One answer to this would be to make each user open a different 'instance' > of the device. (i.e. a differnt minor number). otherwise there is no > really good place to store the information. > The device does not track users as such and even if it did, how would it > track when a user process forks and becomes 2? it is not notified of this > event.
Is he looking for something like this in FreeBSD? http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-5900/6i9kj7or8?a=view -- DE _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
