I want to keep an internal state per each registration instance, and I opted to
use open() as the registration mechanism.
-Jacob
----- Original Message ----
From: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jacob A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 2:58:18 PM
Subject: Re: 2.4 Q: list of open files per inode?
On Jul 22 2007 04:39, Jacob A wrote:
>I'm using the open/close call as a way for processes to
>register/unregister with a watchdog driver that I'm writing. I
>thought that I can save the housekeeping within the driver, but it
>looks like It would be easier just to maintain my own list and be
>done with it.
Sounds a bit wrong. _What_ exactly do you want to keep?
Jan
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