On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Oliver Schwartz <Oliver.Schwartz at gmx.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > On 28.01.2010 at 14:39 m. allan noah wrote: > >> I would do both- process ID combined with a hash of the device name, > > I believe that would defeat the purpose. The whole point of the mutex is to > protect the USB device from simultaneous access from two processes, e.g. the > reader process and the main process. If the key to create the mutex is > different in both processes they end up with different mutexes and the USB > device is unprotected.
right. > Anyway, I've commited a hash function now. The new code should also work on > FreeBSD 8.0. If anyone can try it, I'd be much obliged. I did not see any commit message. did you git push? allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
