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Re: File Descriptor

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 15:53 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:40:06PM -0800, Usman S. Ansari wrote:
[...]
> > Therefore I do not want to go through (nor I have time) to make a
> > list, maintain a list, etc, but if such a list is already maintained
> > by the kernel, than I can quickly go and do cleanup
> 
> It's already maintained by the kernel, and cleaned up by the kernel if
> userspace closes the device node, or the process goes away.  Nothing
> special needs to be done in the driver.

Oh, the list of open file descriptors of a given process. That's another
intepretation of "my file descriptors".

	Bernd
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