Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2

[Alan Cox]

> The only reason we use a floating base, is because Uli preferred to have 
> non-exactly predictable fd allocations. There no reason of re-doing the 
> same POSIX mistake all over again:

Why does he want an unpredictable algorithm - to make debugging hell
because apps crash only for some patterns and reduce reproducability of
debugging of userspace ?

> Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum

Speaking latin didn't make the romans too wise either to look at their
history.

Alan
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