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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706081710260.5795@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:13:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >
> > > You need things to be *repeatable* for debugging. No ifs, buts, or maybes
> > > about it.
> >
> > It all depends on how you use the file descriptor.
>
> Read what I wrote. "for debugging".
>
> If your code is bug-free, and does what you intend it to do, everything is
> fine. But you wouldn't be doing debugging then, would you?
>
> For debugging, it does _not_ depend on "how you use the file descriptor".
> The whole _point_ is that something does something wrong. Maybe you
> _intended_ to use the file descriptor some way, and the bug was that you
> didn't.
Ok, so what's your idea? Have another POSIX-like allocator somewhere up
there in the fd space, with a fixed and include-defined base?
Or just drop all this altogether?
- Davide
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