On Wed 2017-10-25 14:45:31, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On 10/23/17, Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Binary fdmap looks... quite ugly to me. But close_all(from, to) > > syscall kindof makes sense to me... and is not that ugly. > > > > Given that openbsd has something similar... perhaps we can take that? > > closefrom() can be implemented on top of fdmap(). > fdmap as is is useful for other purposes.
fdmap can be implemented on top of open('/dev/kmem').
open('/dev/kmem') as is is useful for other purposes.
Yes, fdmap is more powerful. No, that does not mean it is better idea.
Pavel
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