Hello,

I have netbsd cdev driver. I do multiple opens (more instances) on it, is there 
any way to get know about each close of these instances?

'A' process does:
open
ioctl(START_IT) + others
for (;;) {
poll
ioctl(LOCK_IT)
read it by mmap
ioctl(UNLOCK_IT)
}

^C, so kernel calls close for it and releases A process' resources.

If there is also process B, which does the very same thing, for first process 
killed there is no close call and kernel turns into ddb. I do need to know about 
all closes -- is there such a way?

Maybe this breaks some netbsd development rules. Ok, then what's the matter of 
implementing multiple access of processes into kernel space -- userspace mmap 
area with data filled by the driver. Each process (instance) has its own queue, 
which is filled by the driver according to hardware data.

thanks,
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