locking in a device driver

[Dinesh Nair]

On 11/03/05 05:15 Scott Long said the following:
> before the ioctl call runs.  But it does work.  Look at the aac(4)
> driver for my example of this.

i will, it sounds like a good solution.

> The other option is to use rfork, aka 'linuxthreads' to similate threads

i could try with linuxthreads, but some calls which are not threadsafe may 
be made by the userland app.

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