Hi Pete, On Monday 19 March 2007 21:02, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:23:05 -0500, "Dmitry Torokhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > It seems that if a process keeps a character device open then other > > processes will also be able to get into filp->f_op->open(inode,filp) > > in chrdev_open() even after a driver called cdev_del() as part of its > > unwind procedure. Is this correct or am I missing something? > > I see no replies in the archives. Have you got any private ones?
No I have not. > > Also, what's the context? I want to switch input handlers to cdevs to rip table of devices out of input core and lift limit on potential number of devices and was pondering locking implications. -- Dmitry - 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/
