Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 12:08:11 -0800 From: bruno schwander <bschwand@dvart.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: close call in a device ? Message-ID: <3A0B042B.BAABCBDE@dvart.com> References: <200011091827.LAA22910@usr08.primenet.com>
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Thank you infinitely for all this information. It will take me a while to absorb and poke around in the right places but this is definitely extremely useful, thank you. I will most probably come back to you with more questions, in a near future time... bruno Terry Lambert wrote: > > > To add to this, the close calls can be forces; there is a flag > > > in the device structure wich can force notification. I'm not > > > sure what it does over a fork(), though: I think you really want > > > open notification. > > > > You mean that when I register my device/kernel module, I can > > explicitely request that all close calls will notify my module? > > That is exactly what I need. > > Add D_TRACKCLOSE to d_flags for your device. When the d_close() > of your device is call, the first arg is the dev. > snip ... much much more .... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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