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Date:      Mon, 15 Jun 1998 06:32:09 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RFC: Change to the device interface 
Message-ID:  <3413.897885129@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jun 1998 17:14:30 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980614161243.6576C-100000@current1.whistle.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.980614161243.6576C-100000@current1.whistle.com>, Juli
an Elischer writes:
>
>
>On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.980614143541.6528A-100000@current1.whistle.com>, Juli
>> 
>> Julian, I think this is needless generality.
>> 
>> Just add one new entrypoint to the devsw structure "openclose"
>> which receives as argument the number of currently open R/O and
>> R/W opens, as well as the delta which is causing this call, and
>> the credentials of the process affecting the change.
>> 
>
>Ok, so you need to keep the opens counted somewhere else..
>where? In the vnode?

Wouldn't that be the logical place ?

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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