On Wed 2017-10-25 14:45:31, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On 10/23/17, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> 
> > Binary fdmap looks... quite ugly to me. But close_all(from, to)
> > syscall kindof makes sense to me... and is not that ugly.
> >
> > Given that openbsd has something similar... perhaps we can take that?
> 
> closefrom() can be implemented on top of fdmap().
> fdmap as is is useful for other purposes.

fdmap can be implemented on top of open('/dev/kmem').
open('/dev/kmem') as is is useful for other purposes.

Yes, fdmap is more powerful. No, that does not mean it is better idea.
									Pavel
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