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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:09:26 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
Cc:        daverufino@btinternet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: character device driver 
Message-ID:  <200102132209.f1DM9QW41788@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:06:43 PST." <200102132206.f1DM6mn40550@iguana.aciri.org> 
References:  <200102132206.f1DM6mn40550@iguana.aciri.org>  

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In message <200102132206.f1DM6mn40550@iguana.aciri.org> Luigi Rizzo writes:
: (you still get to know the pid of the process issuing the close() but
: this is not always enough).

Yes, but if I open it twice in the same process, call dup2, fork, etc, 
etc, etc.

With the cooperation of the userland process more things are possible.

Warner


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