I’m grateful for having you as a friend! Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 7, 2020, at 4:41 AM, Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm not subscribed to this list, but I thought I would resurrect this > old thread, as I ran across it on the web. > >> On Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:38:44 +0100, Yann Droneaud said: >> >>> O_EXCL is intended to be used to prevent opening an existing file. Said >>> differently, it's used to ensure a new file is created, useful to >>> prevent race condition, where multiple processes compete to create a >>> file. For example think of temporary file created with random name. >> >> Which means that if you're trying to regulate exclusive use of a character >> device or similar, you use O_EXCL|O_CREAT to create a lock file, and > make sure >> that all the programs competing for the character device use the same > pathname >> to create the lock file - which has been a tried-and-true way of handling >> exclusive locking for serial ports for 4 decades now. >> >> The fact that 'strings /usr/sbin/ModemManager | grep /' proves pretty > clearly >> that ModemManager is trusting DBus to keep track of things rather than > using >> lock files on the modems is almost certainly part of the reason it's a > steaming >> pile of dingo's kidneys rather than a helpful piece of software. > > My solution to this particular dingo terd is this: > > cat << EOF >> /var/udev/rules.d/81-ttyUSB_ACM_no_mm.rules > KERNEL=="ttyUSB[0-9]*", ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1" > KERNEL=="ttyACM[0-9]*", ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1" > EOF > > Very evil indeed. I have a lot of strange devices attached to serial > ports or emulating USB CDC ACM devices, and this cost me a lot of time. > The funny thing is that I went CDC ACM (on one device) instead of raw > URBs because I thought it would save me time, but I spent much longer > trying to figure this out than I saved. > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies