> You can't do that avoiding as you might like because the behaviour of
> file handle numbering is defined by the standards. Hence the "f*"
> versions of the calls (and of lots of other stuff)
>
> Whether you add new syscalls or do the fd passing using flags and hide
> the ugly bits in glibc is another question.
To add an example of what I mean you might end up defining "CLOCK_FD" to
indicate to use the fd in the struct, but given syscalls are trivial
codewise and would end up as
fclock_foo(int fd, blah)
{
clock = fd_to_clock(fd);
if (error)
return error
clock_do_foo(clock, blah);
clock_put(clock);
}
and
clock_foo(int posixid, blah)
{
clock = posix_to_clock(posixid)
...
rest same
}
as wrappers it seems hardly worth adding ugly hacks
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