Re: close() problem

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yeah, snoppy1314, Not everyone can see your HTML based email because
of different E-mail client, Greg's explanation is professional. Thx!

why you need three process to do this thing? what's the scenario ?

2009/4/16 Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>:
> An HTML based email.  Please, not here.
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> 2009/4/16 snoppy1314 <snoppy1314@xxxxxxx>:
>>
>>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I have three progree: HIT, new-sim300 and pppd, also have a driver
>> cdc-acm.ko(it generates a device file /dev/ttyACM0).
>> I call open(/dev/ttyACM0) in HIT, and then call system("./pppd") and
>> system("./new-sim300") in HIT. I think, when  I kill HIT, the
>> close(dev/ttyACM0) will be called automatically.But in fact, the
>> close(dev/ttyACM0) isn't called until the pppd, new-sim300 and HIT are all
>> killed.who can tell me why?
>> Thanks in advance!
>
> Below is guesswork:
>
> I suspect that in HIT you close one of stdin / stdout / stderr.  Then
> when you open /dev/ttyACM0, it gets assigned one of those file
> descriptors.
>
> The system() call then launches the children with the inherited stdin
> / stdout / stderr files already open.  The number of times the file is
> open is tracked and your kernel close() code is not called until the
> open count is decremented to zero based on all three programs dieing.
>
> Greg
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