Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:47:46 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > yep, correct. But take a look at the trick it does with file descriptors, > i believe it could be a useful way of doing things. It basically > privatizes a struct file, without inserting it into the enumerated file > descriptors. This shows that 'native files' are possible: file struct > without file descriptor integers mapped to them.
That's nothing new: the exec() code does exactly the same.
In fact, there's a function for it: filp_open() and filp_close(). Which do a better job of it than your private implementation did, I suspect.
I don't think your object fingerprints are anything more generic than the current file descriptors.
Linus
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