> 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.
If you are building a stable system and you test it and it passes extensive testing you don't care if it works because of a specific pattern of accesses since your testing shows that it continues to work. If you randomize these it becomes fundamentally untestable. There is a role for this in fuzz testing but there is not a role for it in normal production behaviour. Please consign the whole funky file handle farce to the bucket labelled "dumb ideas". I know its a bit full but there is room in there for more - unlike the kernel. Alan - 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/
