How to open a device for exclusive access?

[Kevin D. Clark]

Steven W. Orr writes:

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

So, at this point the "best" solution seems to be obvious:  just
modify the driver to respect O_EXCL.  Surely the original authors of
the driver would welcome this enhancement.

--kevin
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