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SubjectRe: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6
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).

J
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