Re: [PATCH] firewire: fail open() quickly if the node doesn't exist anymore

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sunday 27 January 2008 12:21:56 pm Stefan Richter wrote:
> Scenario:  Process A keeps the character device file of node N open.
> N is being unplugged.  File /dev/fwN won't be destroyed as long as A
> doesn't close it.  Now, process B opens /dev/fwN as well.  Previously
> it would succeed but be unable to do any IO on it of course.  With this
> patch, process B's open() will fail immediately with -ENODEV.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Makes perfect sense to me, no problems with it in cursory testing.

Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx>

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