Re: Resource busy

[William Scott Lockwood III]

What does ps aux show?  Is there still a process that has the camera?  Can
you kill -9 <pid> to get rid of that process, and does the camera then
unlock?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jatin Shah" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:57 PM
Subject: Resource busy

> Hi,
> I have an application that uses an USB camera. This app is bit buggy and
> when it crashes (segmentation fault) it locks the devices so that the app
> always gets the message "Device or Resource Busy"(Thats error EBUSY). Note
> that app, mmaps device to memory.
>
>         Now that app has crashed how do I release the device? rmmod on
> camera driver (or uhci) does not work.
>
> Jatin
> PS: Please cc me the response.
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