chrdev_open lifetime question

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Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 - 6:23 pm

Hi,

It seems that if a process keeps a character device open then other
processes will also be able to get into filp->f_op->open(inode,filp)
in chrdev_open() even after a driver called cdev_del() as part of its
unwind procedure. Is this correct or am I missing something?

Thanks!

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Dmitry
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chrdev_open lifetime question, Dmitry Torokhov, (Wed Mar 7, 6:23 pm)
Re: chrdev_open lifetime question, Pete Zaitcev, (Mon Mar 19, 9:02 pm)
Re: chrdev_open lifetime question, Dmitry Torokhov, (Sun Mar 25, 1:36 am)