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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Dleting a Device in AIX 4.3 Post 1010 by Neo on Friday 2nd of February 2001 02:26:37 PM
Old 02-02-2001
The 'device in use' error comes from the fact that there is a process running which has an open/active file descriptor associated with the device. You must determine the process(es) which is(are) associated with the device and kill it(them).

If the device is a tty then you have to determine which tty is in use (mouse, modems, console, logins, etc) and make sure when you kill the process that you are not killing the shell you are working in. For example, if you are at a console and logged in to the system, you cannot kill that tty. If you do, you will be kicked off, because your shell process (associated with the tty) will die.

Enjoy the detective work! It not too hard of a detective-problem and should be rewarding finding out which TTYs are associated with what process Smilie
 

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SNP(4)                                                     BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                                                     SNP(4)

NAME
snp -- tty snoop interface SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/snoop.h> int ioctl(fd, SNPSTTY, &dev); int ioctl(fd, SNPGTTY, &dev); int ioctl(fd, FIONREAD, &result); DESCRIPTION
/dev/snp is a snoop device which allows users to attach to any tty and watch activities on it. The kernel must be compiled with device snp, or the snp module must be loaded, for these devices to be available. To associate a given snp device with a tty to be observed, open the snp device and a tty device, and then issue the SNPSTTY ioctl on snp device. The argument passed to the ioctl(2) is the address of a variable of type int, holding the file descriptor of a tty device. To detach the snp device from a tty use a pointer to a value of -1. The SNPGTTY ioctl returns information about the current tty attached to the open snp device. The FIONREAD ioctl returns a positive value equal to the number of characters in a read buffer. Special values defined are: SNP_OFLOW device overflow occurred, device detached. SNP_TTYCLOSE tty not attached. SNP_DETACH snp device has been detached by user or tty device has been closed and detached. SEE ALSO
pty(4), sio(4), kldload(8), watch(8) HISTORY
The snp device first appeared in FreeBSD 2.1. In FreeBSD 8.0 the snp driver was rewritten to work with the replaced TTY subsystem. AUTHORS
The author of the current implementation is Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>. Previous versions of snp were based on code written by Ugen J.S. Antsilevich <ugen@NetVision.net.il>. BUGS
This version of snp does not return proper error codes when calling FIONREAD. It also does not allow SNPSTTY to detach itself from the TTY. BSD November 5, 2008 BSD
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