Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Look at the floppy driver. Having O_EXCL support is just a few lines
> > in the drivers open handler.
>
> No, I mean bloated at an application level (if you have to reopen the
> device for certain things), so I wanted to make sure you didn't want to
> make this (opening O_EXCL) part of the API. ;-).
You have to reopen the device only if you need a different O_EXCL
state for different things like nxtvepg: for vbi capture it doesn't
care whenever someone else uses the same card to watch tv, but for
switching channels it does. Most applications likely don't need this.
Gerd
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