Re: /dev/nvram driver

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:07:10 +0100 (BST)

> Currently it tracks O_EXCL on open() and sets a flag, whereby no other
> open() calls can succeed. Is this functionality really needed? Perhaps it
> should just be a reader/writer model : n readers or 1 writer. In that
> case, should open() block on a writer, or return -EBUSY?

Several tools expect that mode of behaviour so that they can atomically
recompute the checksum when writing low bytes of the CMOS
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