Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2003 16:05:33 -0400 | From | "Bill Rugolsky Jr." <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink |
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On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:57:08AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Personally I would prefer if open() on > /proc/*/fd would actually operate as if a dup() on the relevant file > descriptor, which would be a significant change of semantics; however, > one could argue those are the saner semantics.
We discussed this previously; I described the problems with existing semantics, and on 2000/020/29 you wrote:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=fa.iqoa6kv.flii0q%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dhpa%2Brugolsky%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch
"I'm hoping to fix this in 2.5. The problem is that the way open() is done in the VFS *requires* the creation of a new filestructure."
I'm still open to suggestions. ;-)
Regards,
Bill Rugolsky
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