Prevent a process from opening a file more than once

[Venkatram Tummala]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi :)
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:56, Venkatram Tummala <venkatram867 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I have a simple device driver which creates a /dev/XYZ file. I need to
> > prevent a process from opening the file more than once. However, multiple
> > processes can open the file simultaneously. Is there any any elegant way
> to
> > do this other than checking all opened files in the process ?
>
> Uhm, keep a reference count and increment it on every file open in
> your module? How does that sound?
>
Well, which refcount should i use? I can't use the refcount in the file
object as the file objects passed to me are different each time the file is
opened in the process.



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