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Message-Id: <20070319180225.4638bc80.zaitcev@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:02:25 -0700
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>
To: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: chrdev_open lifetime question
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:23:05 -0500, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> 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?
Also, what's the context?
-- Pete
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