On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > You need things to be *repeatable* for debugging. No ifs, buts, or maybes > > > about it. > > > > It all depends on how you use the file descriptor. > > Read what I wrote. "for debugging". > > If your code is bug-free, and does what you intend it to do, everything is > fine. But you wouldn't be doing debugging then, would you? > > For debugging, it does _not_ depend on "how you use the file descriptor". > The whole _point_ is that something does something wrong. Maybe you > _intended_ to use the file descriptor some way, and the bug was that you > didn't.
Ok, so what's your idea? Have another POSIX-like allocator somewhere up there in the fd space, with a fixed and include-defined base? Or just drop all this altogether? - 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/
