Re: light weight user level semaphores

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:34:50 -0400

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Trust me. You're arguing for clearly broken behaviour. malloc() and
> friends MUST NOT open file descriptors. It _will_ break programs that
> rely on traditional and documented features.

Indeed; STDIN_FILENO and friends are constants...

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Building 1024    | the English think 100 miles is a long distance and
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                 |      (random fortune)
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