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From: hitt@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Hitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: determining which process owns the serial port
Summary: how do you do this?
Keywords: serial port, process, ownership
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.185944.12618@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 30 Nov 90 18:59:44 GMT
Sender: hitt@neon.stanford.edu
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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How can a program determine which process owns the serial port?
Is there a system call which will return the pid of the
owning process?  If not that, is there some table that can
be read which records who owns what resources?

dan