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Date:      Sat, 08 Dec 2001 04:17:32 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Dave Rufino <dr263@hermes.cam.ac.uk>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: statefulness in character device drivers
Message-ID:  <3C1204DC.1F74E47B@mindspring.com>
References:  <49036.1007811221@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >Speaking for myself, first open and final close would be all I need for
> >the nvidia driver - though i'm sure tracking dup/dup2/fcntl would be
> >preferable in the general case.
> 
> first open/last close has been the UNIX way for decades...

I think he still means per process, not globally?

-- Terry

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