On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Michael van Elst wrote:
p...@whooppee.com (Paul Goyette) writes:
See misfs/specfs/spec_vnops.c::spec_close().
yes, that would certainly explain the situation. It does, however, make
it rather difficult to maintain a valid ref-count!
specfs does the open refcounting. The device only has a single bit, open
sets it and close clears it. That bit is added to a common counter
that is used for other references.
Hmmm. Would it be valid, then, for my close() routine to reset the
ref-count to zero rather than simply decrementing? Does the close()
only get called if there are _NO_ outstanding open()s for _any_ process?
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