> You can't do that avoiding as you might like because the behaviour of > file handle numbering is defined by the standards. Hence the "f*" > versions of the calls (and of lots of other stuff) > > Whether you add new syscalls or do the fd passing using flags and hide > the ugly bits in glibc is another question.
To add an example of what I mean you might end up defining "CLOCK_FD" to indicate to use the fd in the struct, but given syscalls are trivial codewise and would end up as fclock_foo(int fd, blah) { clock = fd_to_clock(fd); if (error) return error clock_do_foo(clock, blah); clock_put(clock); } and clock_foo(int posixid, blah) { clock = posix_to_clock(posixid) ... rest same } as wrappers it seems hardly worth adding ugly hacks _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev