Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:23:05 -0500 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | chrdev_open lifetime question |
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Hi,
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?
Thanks!
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