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To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys conf.h
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 16 Aug 1999 11:11:06 +0200
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Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> writes:
> From what I can tell, this requires that the driver ignores the minor 
> number ('cos it's the same for all accesses) but keeps a track of of 
> the process id in the device structure.  The driver would need to 
> know about fork()s and *all* close()s, and would probably need to 
> use something faster than `sequential' to find the device structure 
> from the pid (some sort of hash).

What if the same process needs several instances of the same device?

DES
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