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Re: Locking of serial devices and devfs



According to Cyrille Chepelov:
> Le jeu, jun 21, 2001, à 01:27:59 +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg a écrit:
> 
> > I think you should try pushing the SVR4 locking standard instead-
> > don't lock on device name but on major/minor
> 
> devfs is all about loosing that major/minor <troll>nonsense</troll>.

Sure, *but* even on devfs, a device node has a unique major/minor.
It might be allocated dynamically and be only valid until the next
reboot, but it's perfectly usuable for locking.

Mike.



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