Re: Question about usb-serial port registration

Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Organization Novell
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Samstag, 24. März 2007 04:30 schrieb Alan Stern:
> Regular files work like that.  If a program has a file named "foo" open 
> when you do "rm foo", the open file reference won't prevent you from 
> creating a new file named "foo" in the same directory.  There will be no 
> conflict or confusion between the two files.

The kernel no longer deals with device names. With ordinary files, the
kernel would violate the standard if it reused an inode number while
a file is still open.

	Regards
		Oliver

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