On Wed, 30 May 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And then the semantics: do these descriptors should show up in > > /proc/self/fd? Are there separate directories for each namespace? Do > > they count against the rlimit? > > Oh, absolutely. The'd be real fd's in every way. People could use them > 100% equivalently (and concurrently) with the traditional ones. The whole, > and the _only_ point, would be that it breaks the legacy guarantees of a > dense fd space. > > Most apps don't actually *need* that dense fd space in any case. But by > defaulting to it, we wouldn't break those (few) apps that actually depend > on it.
I agree. What would be a good interface to allocate fds in such area? We don't want to replicate syscalls, so maybe a special new dup function? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
