Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 May 2007 14:38:54 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6 |
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Ulrich Drepper wrote: > I don't like special cases. For me things better come in quantities 0, > 1, and unlimited (well, reasonable high limit). Otherwise, who gets to > use that special namespace? The C library is not the only body of code > which would want to use descriptors.
Valgrind could certainly make use of it. It currently reserves a set of fds "high enough", and tries hard to hide them from apps, but /proc/self/fd makes it intractable in general (there was only so much simulation I was willing to do in Valgrind).
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