On 18-Jul-2002 John Baldwin wrote:
> In revision 1.94 of kern_descrip.c, in the dup2() syscall a goto
> retry loop was added so that if we did a fdalloc() we always retested
> everything.  Since fd_nfiles can't shrink and new and old can't
> change, I don't see why the loop is necessary.  Neither dup() or
> the F_DUPFD fcntl() were modified in this way either.  Also,
> calling fdalloc() in this case is somewhat bogus, because fdalloc()
> is going to try and reserve an open slot and update variables such
> as fd_lastfile, etc. appropriately.  Perhaps we should have an
> fdextend() function that both dup2() and fdalloc() call?  Also,
> in do_dup() you have commented out the call to munmapfd() on an
> open file with UF_MAPPED and never turned it back on.  Was that
> intentional or just an accidental oversight?

Nevermind about munmapfd().

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