Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink

From: Bill Rugolsky Jr. (brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 15:05:33 EST

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:57:08AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Personally I would prefer if open() on
> /proc/*/fd would actually operate as if a dup() on the relevant file
> descriptor, which would be a significant change of semantics; however,
> one could argue those are the saner semantics.

We discussed this previously; I described the problems with
existing semantics, and on 2000/020/29 you wrote:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=fa.iqoa6kv.flii0q%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dhpa%2Brugolsky%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch

  "I'm hoping to fix this in 2.5. The problem is that the way open() is
  done in the VFS *requires* the creation of a new filestructure."

I'm still open to suggestions. ;-)

Regards,

   Bill Rugolsky

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