From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
moreau francis <francis_moreau2000@yahoo.fr>
Cc: Frederik Deweerdt <dev.deweerdt@laposte.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [TTY] exclusive mode question
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:03:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506101003.24835.vda@ilport.com.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050609161225.A14513@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
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@laposte.net> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-10 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-09 8:49 moreau francis
2005-06-09 9:36 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2005-06-09 9:59 ` moreau francis
2005-06-09 10:41 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2005-06-09 11:41 ` moreau francis
2005-06-09 12:16 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2005-06-09 14:22 ` moreau francis
2005-06-09 15:12 ` Russell King
2005-06-10 7:03 ` Denis Vlasenko [this message]
2005-06-10 7:11 ` moreau francis
2005-06-10 9:36 ` moreau francis
2005-06-10 16:24 ` Russell King
2005-06-09 12:16 ` moreau francis
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