Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:37:13 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Device deadlock. |
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Peter Enderborg wrote:
> I have a program that sends midi events to the /dev/midi0 device. > > It open the device with open() for read/write. Sometimes it sends a lot of events > > and the device stops send. (Nonblocking) Then the device is dead. I stop the process and > > trying open the device and it is stil busy. The hardware is SB16 or SB128 PCI. > > Im thinking of sending some IOCTL to give it a reset signal, but I cant send IOCTL > > the device is busy. Ugly deadlock... > include <fcntl.h>
fd = open("/dev/midi0", O_RWDR|O_NONBLOCK);
Doesn't this work?
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