Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Look at the floppy driver. Having O_EXCL support is just a few lines > > in the drivers open handler. > > No, I mean bloated at an application level (if you have to reopen the > device for certain things), so I wanted to make sure you didn't want to > make this (opening O_EXCL) part of the API. ;-). You have to reopen the device only if you need a different O_EXCL state for different things like nxtvepg: for vbi capture it doesn't care whenever someone else uses the same card to watch tv, but for switching channels it does. Most applications likely don't need this. Gerd -- Weil die späten Diskussionen nicht mal mehr den Rotwein lohnen. -- Wacholder in "Melanie"
