On Sunday 27 January 2008 12:21:56 pm Stefan Richter wrote: > Scenario: Process A keeps the character device file of node N open. > N is being unplugged. File /dev/fwN won't be destroyed as long as A > doesn't close it. Now, process B opens /dev/fwN as well. Previously > it would succeed but be unable to do any IO on it of course. With this > patch, process B's open() will fail immediately with -ENODEV. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Makes perfect sense to me, no problems with it in cursory testing. Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
