Re: locking in a device driver

From: Dinesh Nair (dinesh_at_alphaque.com)
Date: 11/02/05

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    Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 05:44:23 +0800
To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>

    On 11/03/05 05:15 Scott Long said the following:
    > before the ioctl call runs. But it does work. Look at the aac(4)
    > driver for my example of this.

    i will, it sounds like a good solution.

    > The other option is to use rfork, aka 'linuxthreads' to similate threads

    i could try with linuxthreads, but some calls which are not threadsafe may
    be made by the userland app. 

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