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On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > Agreed, a new syscall looks less messy. I'll make sys_dup2() to allow > installing in the non-sequential area, only if there's an fd already > allocated. F_DUPFD will remain unchanged (that is, not allow > non-sequential fds allocations). I actually think that a new system call is _hugely_ messy. It means that anybody who wants to use a new feature needs to have a new glibc. Not nice, not nice at all. I'd much rather see a totally transparent extension that doesn't require any new user space what-so-ever to be used... Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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