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SubjectRe: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > prctl(PR_SPARSEFD, 1);
> > >
> > > to turn on sparse fd allocation for a process ?
> >
> > There was a little discussion where I tried to whisper something similar,
> > but Linus and Uli shot me :) - with good reasons IMO.
> > You may link to runtimes that are not non-sequentialfd aware, and will
> > break them.
>
> Linking to the correct version of a libary and getting the library
> versioning right is not rocket science and isn't a sane excuse. Its no
> different to the stdio to large fd migration issues with many Unixen and
> they all coped just fine.

I don't think it's a matter of versioning. Many userspace libraries
expects their fds to be compact (for many reasons - they use select, they
use them to index 0-based arrays, etc...), and if the kernel suddendly
starts returning values in the 1<<28 up arena, they sure won't be happy.
So I believe that the correct way is that the caller specifically selects
the feature, leaving the legacy fd allocation as default.



- Davide


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