On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:04:50AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > - openg/sutoc > > No way. We already have a very nice file descriptor abstraction. > You can pass file descriptors over unix sockets just fine. Yes, but it behaves like dup(). Gary replied to me off-list (which I didn't notice and continued replying to him off-list). I wrote: Is this for people who don't know about dup(), or do they need independent file offsets? If the latter, I think an xdup() would be preferable (would there be a security issue for OSes with revoke()?) Either that, or make the key be useful for something else. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
