Re: Linux problems
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> Yes, that would work if you could do it. But you can't have multiple
> independent paths to the device. This can be solved by providing a
> device lock which works for any path, or not allowing multiple paths.
>
> I'm not sure Solaris handles this, either. If you used mknode to create
> multiple inodes for the same major/minor device, I wonder if you would
> get the same problems. It may be case that Solaris applications just
> don't create the problme than the o/s solving it.
Tne missconception on Linux is to have multiple _drivers_ for the same HW.
Jörg
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