-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Davide Libenzi wrote: > I think new system calls would have been a cleaner way to accomplish this. > The "small pill at a time" may have better chance to go in, but will > likely result in an uglier userspace interface.
We'd need this call anyway since neither dup nor dup2 provides the functionality of F_DUPFD (but F_DUPFD can be used to implement dup). For dup2() I will wait until we have a sys_indirect implementation. I'll try to get this soon. - -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG/Ua02ijCOnn/RHQRAgOQAKCfQ9H4VYau6nVGuVXyJ7IfBXK+QgCfYQxv k4esG379v8VBceFIECDybk0= =dvhX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/
