Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BUG] oops while completing async USB via usbdevio

[Harald Welte]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:09:06AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 00:55 schrieb David Brownell:
> > The logic closing an open usbfs file -- which is done before any task
> > exits with such an open file -- is supposed to block till all its URBs
> > complete.  So the pointer to the task "should" be valid for as long as
> > any URB it's submitted is active.
> 
> What happens if you pass such an fd through a socket?

which is exactly what happens on certain distributions for all device
opens if you look at SuSE's recent (in?)famous invention of resmgrd)

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