Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:27:30 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sys_epoll system call interface to /dev/epoll |
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > > Apart from the multiple vs. single system call issue, are you okay with > the creation of an fd,file * etc. without having a device ?
Hey, that's the UNIX way. Think sockets, think pipes, think futexes. It's nothing new, it's been there in Unix since 1969, and the "everything is a file" thing has nothing to say about using "open".
Linus
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