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Re: file_operations owner field.

Hi,
Hi All,

I was reading a chapter from LDD3 and came know that

file_operations->owner field is a pointer to the module that owns the file_operations structure. This field is used to prevent the module from being unloaded while its operation is in use. Almost all the time, it is simply initialized to THIS_MODULE, a macro define in <linux/module.h> 
owner is of type struct module and THIS_MODULE is macro
which is defined as &__this_module. Look at the declaration
of struct module in linux/module.h

-pgssgp

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