Help with device drivers

Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i.net
Mon Aug 10 14:27:34 UTC 2009


On Monday 10 August 2009 13:39:31 Krassimir Slavchev wrote:
> If I try to open the device from userland with:
> fd = open("/dev/xxx0", O_RDWR) it fails because open() tries to open the
> device for reading first and then for writing.

There is a bug in the code. If you open using read+write flags, then the FIFO 
open routine is called two times. The RD+WR check should be moved to the ioctl 
routine.

http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=167171

--HPS



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