On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 15:40 -0800, Usman S. Ansari wrote: > In this particular situation, I would like to do some cleanup, without > too much overhead. > > What I mean, there could be a situation in which we will tell our > customer that "this senario can result in unpredictable results". > > Therefore I do not want to go through (nor I have time) to make a > list, maintain a list, etc, but if such a list is already maintained > by the kernel, than I can quickly go and do cleanup I doubt that there is any list (Greg KH - and lots of other people around - knowns way much more of the kernel than /me sp listen to them if in doubt). Especially since it is quite unclear what you mean with "my descriptors". - All file descriptors of your driver (excluding dup(), dup2() and dup-through-fork()) - All file descriptors of one device of your driver (excluding dup(), dup2() and dup-through-fork()) And BTW your driver has no chance to get to know if user-space dup()s, dup2()s or fork()s (and thus also dup()s a file descriptor). Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
