On 04/06/2012 02:54 AM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > Without proc knowledge about fdtable is gathered linearly and still unreliable. > With nextfd(2), even procful environments could lose several failure branches. > And they can keep old dumb fd++ or smart /proc/self/fd loops for a change. > Incidentally, if we were to create a system call for this -- which I so far see no reason for -- I would make it return a select-style bitmask of file descriptors in use, not a "next fd" which would require a system call per iteration. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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
