Hi Tom,

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 20:26, Tom Zoerner wrote:
> Is it possible with the current v4l2 API to query the kind of device
> users or at least the number of opens?  I suspect it's currently not
> possible.

Maybe you'd want to add a exclusivity-flag to open() - O_EXCL (see
bits/fcntl.h). I'm not sure whether this is done via file_ops or whether
the driver should do this itself. In the latter case, I don't think any
driver currently implements it. In the first case, it
works-out-of-the-box.

> The ideal solution to this problem I would imagine is to introduce
> priority levels associated with each open.

Nah... All opens should be equal, imho. Priority levels is just too much
work for driver writers, and too much can (and will) go wrong.

Ronald

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Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Video/Multimedia developer



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