On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Ingo Molnar] > > - probably the most radical solution is what i suggested, to > > completely avoid the unique-mapping of file structures to an integer > > range, and use the address of the file structure (and some cookies) > > as an identification. > > Careful, these must cast to non-negative integers, without clashing. if you read my (radical) proposal, the identification is based on a kernel pointer and a 256-bit random integer. So non-negative integers are not needed. (file-IO system-calls would be modified to detect if 'Unix file descriptors' or pointers to 'native file descriptors' are passed to them, so this is truly radical.) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- [patch] sendpath() support, 2.4.0-test3/-ac9 Ingo Molnar
- Re: [patch] sendpath() support, 2.4.0-test3/-ac9 dean gaudet
- Re: [patch] sendpath() support, 2.4.0-test3/-ac9 Linus Torvalds
- 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sendpat... Ingo Molnar
- Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sen... Andi Kleen
- Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sen... Ingo Molnar
- Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sen... Andi Kleen
- O_ANY [was: Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprin... Ingo Molnar
- Re: O_ANY [was: Re: 'native files', 'object finger... Ingo Molnar
- Re: O_ANY [was: Re: 'native files', 'object finger... Peter Samuelson
- Re: O_ANY [was: Re: 'native files', 'object finger... Ingo Molnar
- Re: O_ANY [was: Re: 'native files', 'object finger... Felix von Leitner
- Re: O_ANY [was: Re: 'native files', 'object finger... Andi Kleen
- Re: O_ANY [was: Re: 'native files', 'object finger... Mitchell Blank Jr
- Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sen... Jamie Lokier
- Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sen... Felix von Leitner
- Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sen... Linus Torvalds
- Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sen... dean gaudet
- Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sen... Pavel Machek
- Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sen... Pavel Machek
- Re: [patch] sendpath() support, 2.4.0-test3/-ac9 Ingo Molnar