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.
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:27:15PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > Or.. we could have a method of swizzling in and out an entire FD > array, similar to UML's trick for swizzling MMs. I like that notion even better than randomization. I think it should happen. I like SKAS, too, of course. -- wli - 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/
