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From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>,
	"'Oliver Neukum'" <oliver@neukum.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question on tty open and close
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:32:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <460A8A90.3010401@microgate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070328163158.658b372a@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
> It breaks if any existing driver is doing no cleanup in ->open() when it
> fails but relying upon ->close() being called. That is what needs
> auditing first of all.

Yes, I did not think of that.

-- 
Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-28 11:38 question on tty open and close Oliver Neukum
2007-03-28 13:10 ` Stuart MacDonald
2007-03-28 13:16   ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-28 13:22     ` Stuart MacDonald
2007-03-28 14:44       ` Alan Cox
2007-03-28 15:26         ` Paul Fulghum
2007-03-28 15:31           ` Alan Cox
2007-03-28 14:54             ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-03-28 15:32             ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
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2007-03-28 14:37 Kilau, Scott

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