Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:45:43 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: bug in count_open_files() or a strange granularity? |
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> it is not basic at all. The problems you point out are extremely complex > (at least the fd in transit issue, definitely is). > > So, yes it requires a bit more thought. I will come back when the issues > you pointed out are dealt with. Someone has added the 'files' field to the > 'struct user_struct' so someone must have meant to put support for this > field to be something other than the meaningless 0 it currently is.
You know, in such cases usual course of actions is to remove the bloody thing. It's not used, it's not set to anything useful, semantics is fundamentally non-obvious, so Occam's Razor applies. Until somebody comes up with a reasonable use _and_ clear semantics... Trying to invent one simply because the field is there looks, erm, odd.
-- POSIX should be renamed to FPOSIX - it is U*IX-like, all right, but POS is too mild to describe its quality.
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