Re: light weight user level semaphores

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 10:34:50 EST

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Trust me. You're arguing for clearly broken behaviour. malloc() and
> friends MUST NOT open file descriptors. It _will_ break programs that
> rely on traditional and documented features.

Indeed; STDIN_FILENO and friends are constants...

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