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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:37:24 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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:  <200112112037.fBBKbOM30189@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Dec 2001 10:04:18 %2B0100." <46358.1007802258@critter.freebsd.dk> 
References:  <46358.1007802258@critter.freebsd.dk>  

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In message <46358.1007802258@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
: In message <Pine.SOL.4.33.0112080900220.17158-100000@red.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Dave R
: ufino writes:
: 
: >> Most likely he means a per-open(2) opaque datum that is kept in
: >> struct file and passed to the underlying routines.
: >
: >Sorry, unbelievably bad at explaining myself. Per-open data is what i
: >meant. The reason I'm interested is it would make a full nvidia driver
: >port quite a bit easier.
: 
: Sorry, I know of no current plans which adress this.
: 
: The issue is non-trivial to fix because we currently don't pass
: dup(2) events through the vnode layer.

I'm using a cloning device driver for my needs in this area.

Warner

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