Re: Doubt Regarding Multithreading and Device Driver

[Paulo Marques]

k8 s wrote:
> But i am sharing something in file->private_data which is a private
> variable to the process(that is passed to the device driver
> functions). Isn't it?

How do you make sure that there is only one process accessing the file?

If you open a file and then fork another process, both have access to 
the file using the same file descriptor.

You might want to do precisely this for a number of reasons, like having 
one process that send commands to a device while the other receives 
status information...

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