On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> If, however, you believe that the above _is_ the case but it should _not_
> happen then you are proposing a completely new policy of file structure
> allocation which you believe is superior. It is quite possible so let's
> all understand your new policy and let Linus decide whether it's better
> than the existing one. But if so, don't tell me you are fixing a bug
> because it is not a bug -- it's a redesign of file structure allocator.
If it's not a bug then
- this comment from include/linux/fs.h should be deleted
#define NR_RESERVED_FILES 10 /* reserved for root */
- books should be updated
- people's mind also who believe kernel reserves fd's for superuser
Kernel from 2.1 plays lottery in this regards. And this would be
another sad fact that the kernel is exteremely poor *out of the box*
in regards security and relaibility ...
Szaka
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