Re: How to tell whether a struct file is held by a process?

[Alan Cox]

> Suppose a device needs a reset as part of its init sequence (a whole lot
> of them do, this is not purely hypothetical). Then a different process may
> get to operate the device before and after the reset and hilarity may result
> from that.

Thats surely up to you to get your lock file usage right. The kernel
isn't there to play mother to crap programming.

> So, if there is a clean / acceptable way to handle the reset issue in userspace

Firstly can you explain *why* you think there is a problem ?
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