On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
> We are talking about file descriptors here. If you're using file
> descriptors as anything other than tokens you'll find out soon enough
> that your code is broken. The new type of file descriptors cannot be
> used as indeces and the randomization makes sure that no program by some
> fluke happens to work.
No, Uli.
You need things to be *repeatable* for debugging. No ifs, buts, or maybes
about it.
I think truly random is a bad idea, or at the very least needs some way to
disable it.
Linus
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