> does the synethetic file protocol have request ids I'am afriad not, and the overhead of matching IDs would be too great.
> you could use a cache of already-opened fds; > that would only grow to the number of active requests, > not the number of threads. I like this though. I admit I have since found a really ugly solution that is too vile to describe, it's saving grace is it's speed. However I will try opening new fds on demand when I get a chance, its probably nearly as fast and nothing like so embarrasing. -Steve
