linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

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Message-ID: <20120401182825.GJ21084@netch.kiev.ua>
Date:	Sun, 1 Apr 2012 21:28:26 +0300
From:	Valentin Nechayev <netch@...ch.kiev.ua>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, drepper@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

 Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 15:57:42, adobriyan wrote about "[PATCH] nextfd(2)": 

> So, don't add closefrom(2), add nextfd(2).
> 
> 	int nextfd(int fd)

Is it really needed here to create syscall? One shall update all arch
lists for it. Instead, adding a new option for fcntl() (named e.g.
F_NEXTFD) solves for all platforms simultaneously.


-netch-
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