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Date:      Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:35:25 +0200
From:      Bartosz Fabianowski <freebsd@chillt.de>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Subject:   Re: Is there some implicit locking of device methods?
Message-ID:  <4DB81B9D.1070306@chillt.de>
In-Reply-To: <20110427153012.GX48734@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <4DB695DB.1080505@chillt.de>	<20110426124403.GQ48734@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>	<4DB76085.4000402@chillt.de> <201104271019.31844.jhb@freebsd.org>	<4DB818A3.1020104@chillt.de> <20110427153012.GX48734@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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> The global kind of last close is communicated to cdev by calling cdevsw
> close method. It is known to be not quite reliable, and esp. hard in
> relation to the forced unmounts of devfs mount points.
>
> The close of file (when no other file descriptors referencing the file are
> left) ends in cdevpriv destructor call.

Thanks. That confirms my understanding of the mechanism after John's 
clarification. I will move my code to the cdevpriv destructor and do 
away with the d_close method entirely.

- Bartosz



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