On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:54:40PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > though, some people use it for that purpose (e.g. in the original posting).
driver writers do all kinds of odd things ;-) > it might not be such a bad idea.. > I don't see why the device entrypoints shouldn't have that argument > available.. (file descriptor by which we are getting here) > As long as it can take account of the fact that not all accesses come > via an FD > (e.g mounted disks). disk drivers use a completely different set of entry points in Linux, and don't have access to per-fd data even in the case they're opened from userland. Character drivers to which this applies OTOH always get a valid struct file, it's guranteed as part of the driver API. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
