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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:23:05 -0500
From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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Subject: chrdev_open lifetime question
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Hi,

It seems that if a process keeps a character device open then other
processes will also be able to get into filp->f_op->open(inode,filp)
in chrdev_open() even after a driver called cdev_del() as part of its
unwind procedure. Is this correct or am I missing something?

Thanks!

-- 
Dmitry