Hi! > A lot of stuff relies on the fact that close(open(foo, O_RDONLY)) is a > no-op. Breaking that assumption is a Bad Thing(tm). Then we have a problem. Just opening /dev/ttyS0 currently *has* side effects (it is visible on modem lines from serial port; it can block you forever). If this assumption is somewhere, we should fix that place... Or fix serial ports. Pavel -- I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/
- Re: Why side-effects on open(2) ... Andreas Dilger
- Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil.... Andreas Dilger
- Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are ... Linus Torvalds
- Re: Why side-effects on open(2) ... Peter J. Braam
- Re: Why side-effects on open(2) ... Andreas Dilger
- Re: Why side-effects on open(2) ... Peter J. Braam
- Re: Why side-effects on open(2) ... Daniel Phillips
- Re: Why side-effects on open(2) ... Hans Reiser
- Re: Why side-effects on open(2) ... Daniel Phillips
- Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Why side... Hans Reiser
- Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, ... Pavel Machek
- Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, parti... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, parti... Daniel Phillips
- Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, parti... Alexander Viro
- Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, ... Andrew Morton
- Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from look... Alexander Viro
- Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, parti... Ben LaHaise
- Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, ... Alexander Viro
- Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from look... Ben LaHaise
- Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from ... Alexander Viro
- Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, parti... Alexander Viro