[Linux-parport] parport not automatically released by child process

[Tim Waugh]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:06:16PM +0100, Eddy De Greef wrote:

> on some older 2.4 kernels, I experience the following problem:
> when a process opens /dev/parport0 and then forks, and the child 
> claims the port and exits without releasing it, the parent process
> can no longer claim the port. I would expect that the port is 
> automatically released when the child exits. 

The kernel driver doesn't get to know that the child exited.  They are
sharing the same file descriptor.

If the child instead opened /dev/parport0 itself everything should
work as expected -- or, of course, if the child releases the port
itself.

Tim.
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