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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: determining which process owns the serial port
Keywords: serial port, process, ownership
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.130712.18403@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 90 13:07:12 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.185944.12618@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <1990Nov30.185944.12618@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, hitt@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Hitt) writes:
> 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?

It's not clear what you mean here.  In what sense can a process "own"
the serial port?

					der Mouse

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		(Or am I just exposing my ignorance of the NeXT? :-)