Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 13:29:31 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: bakul@torrentnet.com, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: device driver open semantics... Message-ID: <199702030259.NAA02097@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199702022025.NAA08478@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Feb 2, 97 01:25:21 pm"
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > I disagree. The driver should not depend on the system doing > reference counting for it. Mark me down as being "for" calling > the close once per close. Reference counting is a very simple > modification to make, and there are great benefits to things like > CDROM writers that can also function as readers, non-bidirectional > sound cards, etc., etc.. This would do horrible things to the fork/exec timings. 8( > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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