How to open a device for exclusive access?

[Steven W. Orr]

On Monday, Jul 16th 2007 at 09:53 -0400, quoth Bill McGonigle:

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=>On Jul 15, 2007, at 16:35, Steven W. Orr wrote:
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=>>  my particular problem would be
=>> solved if the char device I was trying to open would only honor O_EXCL
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=>It's a close-source character device?

In fact, the card is proprietary but the driver is open source.

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=>-Bill
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