On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 10:09 -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Hado Hein writes:
> > I want to implement a device interfacing api in /dev that is already
> > done in linux.
>
> Bear in mind that the BSD /dev interface does not provide you with
> any easy way to keep track of per-open information. Eg, there
> is no file_ptr->private_data.
>
> The only easy way to do this is to have a whole slew of minors, allow
> only one open per minor, and to lookup your per-open information based
> on the minor number.
I'm not specialist of FreeBSD at all, but what about file->f_data ?
Ben.
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