On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:39:50PM -0700, Stuart Macdonald wrote: > Overkill maybe, but how else do you know that the process died and that your > driver should free resources associated with that process? Even have problem > using module reference counters in that they remain incremented if > application cores before calling close() and then you can't unload the > driver. uh, a task will call release() when it exits no matter what ... you must make sure to use owner() or module use counts directly to avoid allowing the module to be unloaded during use. regards john -- I am a complete moron for forgetting about endianness. May I be forever marked as such. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
