locking in a device driver

[Dinesh Nair]

On 10/28/05 16:40 Dinesh Nair said the following:
> 
> 
> On 10/28/05 10:52 M. Warner Losh said the following:
> 
>> libc_r will block all other threads in the application while an ioctl
>> executes.  libpthread and libthr won't.  I've had several bugs at work
> 
> 
> which is a Good Thing(tm) indeed for me on 4.x.

which may not be a Good Thing(tm) after all. this could be causing the 
problem i'm seeing with the driver on 4.x. any methods to get around this, 
short of not using threads ?

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