On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 15:53 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:40:06PM -0800, Usman S. Ansari wrote: [...] > > 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 > > It's already maintained by the kernel, and cleaned up by the kernel if > userspace closes the device node, or the process goes away. Nothing > special needs to be done in the driver. Oh, the list of open file descriptors of a given process. That's another intepretation of "my file descriptors". 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/
