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SubjectRe: Device deadlock.
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Peter Enderborg wrote:

> I have a program that sends midi events to the /dev/midi0 device.
>
> It open the device with open() for read/write. Sometimes it sends a lot of events
>
> and the device stops send. (Nonblocking) Then the device is dead. I stop the process and
>
> trying open the device and it is stil busy. The hardware is SB16 or SB128 PCI.
>
> Im thinking of sending some IOCTL to give it a reset signal, but I cant send IOCTL
>
> the device is busy. Ugly deadlock...
>
include <fcntl.h>

fd = open("/dev/midi0", O_RWDR|O_NONBLOCK);

Doesn't this work?


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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