On Wed, 30 May 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > I agree. What would be a good interface to allocate fds in such area? We > don't want to replicate syscalls, so maybe a special new dup function?
I'd do it with something like "newfd = dup2(fd, NONLINEAR_FD)" or similar, and just have NONLINEAR_FD be some magic value (for example, make it be 0x40000000 - the bit that says "private, nonlinear" in the first place). But what's gotten lost in the current discussion is that we probably don't actually _need_ such a private space. I'm just saying that if the *choice* is between memory-mapped interfaces and a private fd-space, we should probably go for the latter. "Everything is a file" is the UNIX way, after all. But there's little reason to introduce private fd's otherwise. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/