Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Right, but that makes it useless for things which want to open it > despite having no permission on the file. For my purposes, if I'm going to emulate pioctl() in userspace, I also need to be able to open device files that don't have drivers available, and when you do open a dev file in this manner, it must _not_ call the ->open() routine of the device driver. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
