Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:23:43 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cloned open support Message-ID: <24995.980807023@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:16:21 PST." <20010129141621.F26076@fw.wintelcom.net>
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>> Why not use an ioctl on the control device to get a minor number to >> use? The ioctl could then do a make_dev() on the appropriate device >> to create it. > >Yes, but will it swap the current open fd with the new device? > >Afaik the idea is to remove the race condition. Guys, we *already have* cloning support that either does or can do all of this with only minor adjustments. You are sitting in a car discussing how to invent the wheel :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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