Re: [kernel patch] fcntl(...) to close many descriptors

[mouss]

At 09:37 29/01/01 -0800, Matt Dillon wrote:
>    This is a bad idea.  One of the reasons why it is so easy for us to
>     write portability modules for Sun, Linux, etc... is because of the
>     hard-coded syscall numbers.  Syscalls work plenty well enough as they
>     are now, we do not need a new mechansm.

true, but if the same idea gets adopted by those many OSes, then it's a benefit
for them all. just how PAM came: it was non-portabble before adoption!





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