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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: statefulness in character device drivers
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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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