On Fre, 2011-08-19 at 10:07 -0700, Cathey, Jim wrote:
> >>That's why I propose we don't multiply syscalls, but extend existing
> >>socket I/O ops to work on non-sockets.
>
> >IMHO it cannot be more elegant.
>
> Only in one way can it become more elegant. Eliminate sockets
> altogether, making them the fd's that they always should have been. :-)
IMHO it's one more step in that direction.
I use sockets like fds - except that they might have a few different
parameters to set.
We have already some fds which are seekable and some that are not, so
sockets are just the third (and forth?) variant to it.
Bernd
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