linux-kernel - Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2

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Message-ID: <20070607110623.53322dae@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:06:23 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2

> I don't think it's a matter of versioning. Many userspace libraries 
> expects their fds to be compact (for many reasons - they use select, they 
> use them to index 0-based arrays, etc...), and if the kernel suddendly 
> starts returning values in the 1<<28 up arena, they sure won't be happy.
> So I believe that the correct way is that the caller specifically selects 
> the feature, leaving the legacy fd allocation as default.

I don't understand the connection between this paragraph (with which I
agree) and the urge to add a ton of ugly syscall hacks. "Caller
specifically selects feature" - > prctl(). Libraries get unhappy ->
linker issue.
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