Thu, 14 Dec 2000 Stephen D. Cohen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Olofson offered an excellent treatise on why multiple open of
> a FIFO is a bad idea. I would like to offer a fairly simple solution.
>
> Simply create a block of FIFOs on the RTL side of the house. Attach
> them all to the same handler (it gets the FIFO number when it is called, but
> since you were planning to multi-open, it probably doesn't matter).
>
> Then simply have your user-mode programs try opening FIFOs until
> they succeed or run out of FIFOs to try.
Yes, that's basically the user space version of what a multi-open capable
driver would do in kernel space - but without constructing a non-standard API.
//David
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