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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!fitzgb
  3. From: fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
  4. Subject: Re: open() from within a Device driver
  5. Message-ID: <3n41c8j@rpi.edu>
  6. Nntp-Posting-Host: mml0.meche.rpi.edu
  7. Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
  8. References: <12850008@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
  9. Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 05:49:08 GMT
  10. Lines: 9
  11.  
  12. Rajeev Menon writes:
  13. >I have a device driver on SCO UNIX SV3.2 (openDesktop 1.0) that
  14. >needs to open a regular file from within the driver, write stuff to it
  15. >and close the file later on, basically the equivalent of the open(), 
  16. >write(), close() system call. 
  17.  
  18. Gadzooks!  Why?
  19.  
  20. Brian
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