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Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] turning devctl into a "multiple openable" device
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On Wednesday 30 November 2011 13:43:20 Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> With the help of cognet, I wrote a patch to turn devctl into a multiple
> openable device, that mean that it will allow to open /dev/devctl in
> multiple programs, for example hald and everythings that want to receive
> notification from the device won't need to depend on haveing devd running.
> 
> here is the patch:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/devctl_multi_open.diff
> 
> regards,
> bapt

Comment:

Is the track-close flag set for the devfs sw?

--HPS