On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 00:58 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Since we can only open the watchdog once having a spinlock to protect
> multiple access is pointless.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[email protected]>
NAK
This is a common mistake.
open is called on the open() call and is indeed in this case 'single
open', but file handles can be inherited and many users may have access
to a single file handle.
eg
f = open("/dev/watchdog", O_RDWR);
fork();
while(1) {
write(f, "Boing", 5);
}
Alan
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