Re: O_ANY [was: Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sendpath()]]

[Peter Samuelson]

[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.

> 	fd = open(...,O_ANY);

I like this idea, but call it O_ALLOCANYFD.

Peter