On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 12:27:40AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > What about orthogonality of interfaces? > > fdmap() > bulk_close() > > Now fdmap() can be reused for lsof/criu and it is only 2 system calls > for close-everything usecase which is OK because readdir is 4(!) minimum: > > open > getdents > getdents() = 0 > close > > Writing all of this I understood how fdmap can be made more faster which > neither getdents() nor even read() have the luxury of: it can return > a flag if more data is available so that application would do next fdmap() > only if truly necessary.
Tactless question: what has traumatised you so badly about string operations? Because that seems to be the common denominator to a lot of things...
