On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:00:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Which *could* be something as simple as saying "bit 30 in the file > descriptor specifies a separate fd space" along with some flags to make > open and friends return those separate fd's. That makes them useless for > "select()" (which assumes a flat address space, of course), but would be > useful for just about anything else.
Or.. we could have a method of swizzling in and out an entire FD array, similar to UML's trick for swizzling MMs. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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/
