Re: [TTY] exclusive mode question

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 18:12, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:22:49PM +0200, moreau francis wrote:
> > --- Frederik Deweerdt <dev.deweerdt@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> > > Le 09/06/05 13:41 +0200, moreau francis écrivit:
> > > > 
> > > > oh ok...sorry I misunderstood TIOEXCL meaning ;)
> > > > Do you know how I could implement such exclusive mode (the one I described)
> > > ?
> > > > 
> > > This is handled through lock files, google for LCK..ttyS0
> > >
> > 
> > This lock mechanism is a convention but nothing prevent a user application to
> > issue a "echo foo > /dev/ttyS0" command while "LCK..ttyS0" file exists...
> 
> Which is absolutely necessary to work if you think about an application
> like minicom and its file transfer helpers, which may need to re-open
> the serial port.
> 
> TTY locking is done via lock files only, and all non-helper applications
> must coordinate their access via the lock files.  There is no other
> mechanism.

I think original reporter is saying that TIOEXCL is nearly useless then.
--
vda

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