Re: removeing devices

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de>]

James Cox writes:
> I have a small program that installs a device as part of its initialisation.
> Upon termination of the program I would like to remove this device. I found
> that deleting the device from the u:\dev directory appears to remove the
> device, but what happens internally - ie: is this safe?

Look at your devices open counter, if its zero it should be, otherwise not.

 or look at the ttyvdev source, it faced the same problem.
(hint: go single user and back...)
> 
> In gthe mean time, I can put the device into an XDD file and just never remove
> it, but that's not quite as nice.

 you mean this is not billyboys kludge city? :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James.
 have fun
	Juergen