Re: O_ANY [was: Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sendpath()]]

[Felix von Leitner]

Thus spake Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> if you read my (radical) proposal, the identification is based on a kernel
> pointer and a 256-bit random integer. So non-negative integers are not
> needed. (file-IO system-calls would be modified to detect if 'Unix file
> descriptors' or pointers to 'native file descriptors' are passed to them,
> so this is truly radical.)

Yuck, don't pass pointers in kernel space to user space!
NT does it and look what kernel call argument verification havoc it
wrought over them!

Felix
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