On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 02:44:28PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Well, all this complexity goes away with a O_FD_FASTALLOC / > SOCK_FD_FASTALLOC bit in various fd allocations, which specifically > tells the kernel we do not care getting the lowest possible fd as POSIX > mandates. ... which won't do a damn thing for existing userland. > Except for legacy stuff and stdin/stdout/stderr games, I really doubt > lot of applications absolutely rely on the POSIX thing... We obviously can't turn that into default behaviour, though. BTW, what distribution do you have in mind for those random descriptors? Uniform on [0,INT_MAX] is a bad idea for obvious reasons - you'll blow the memory footprint pretty soon... -- 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
