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Subject: Re: Resource busy
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:26:18 -0500
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What does ps aux show?  Is there still a process that has the camera?  Can
you kill -9 <pid> to get rid of that process, and does the camera then
unlock?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jatin Shah" <jatin_shah100@hotmail.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:57 PM
Subject: Resource busy


> Hi,
> I have an application that uses an USB camera. This app is bit buggy and
> when it crashes (segmentation fault) it locks the devices so that the app
> always gets the message "Device or Resource Busy"(Thats error EBUSY). Note
> that app, mmaps device to memory.
>
>         Now that app has crashed how do I release the device? rmmod on
> camera driver (or uhci) does not work.
>
> Jatin
> PS: Please cc me the response.
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