How to open a device for exclusive access?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jul 15, 2007, at 16:35, Steven W. Orr wrote:

>  my particular problem would be
> solved if the char device I was trying to open would only honor O_EXCL

It's a close-source character device?

-Bill

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