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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, frankeh@watson.ibm.com,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous Interface
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 09:21:33 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17G6ZR-0000F2-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jun 2002 09:36:23 MST." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206060930240.5920-100000@home.transmeta.com>

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206060930240.5920-100000@home.transmeta.com> you wri
te:
> Do we have major and minor numbers for sockets and populate /dev
> with them? No. And as a result, there has _never_ been any sysadmin
> problems with either.

Ummm... you don't do much network programming, do you Linus?  Don't
confuse familiarity with fondness: the socket API is *not* a good
model to copy.

> You already have to have a system call to bind the particular fd to the
> futex _anyway_, so do the only sane thing, and allocate the fd _there_,
> and get rid of that stupid and horrible /dev/futed which only buys you
> pain, system administration, extra code, and a black star for being
> stupid.

Yet another special way to create a special fd?  Hmm...

That might be better than what I proposed, but it's not the epitomy of
taste either.

Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-06 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-06  7:26 [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous Interface Rusty Russell
2002-06-02  0:10 ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-10  6:57   ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-06 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-06 19:27   ` Alan Cox
2002-06-06 23:21   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2002-06-07  8:33     ` Peter Wächtler
2002-06-08 22:28       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-09  9:49         ` Kai Henningsen
2002-06-09 18:09           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-09 19:06             ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-10  6:39             ` Kai Henningsen
2002-06-10  7:55             ` Helge Hafting
2002-06-10 14:10               ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-10 20:46                 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-06-11 14:14                   ` john slee
2002-06-10 15:11               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-11 15:06                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-10 20:57             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-06-09 10:07         ` Peter Wächtler
2002-06-09 17:49           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-07  9:06   ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-08 22:42     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-11  9:15       ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-11 16:53         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-12  5:32           ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-12  9:16             ` Peter Wächtler
2002-06-12 14:19               ` Hubertus Franke
2002-06-12 16:50                 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-06-12 18:15                   ` Vladimir Zidar
2002-06-12 15:39               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-12 16:29                 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-06-12 16:52                   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-12 17:07                     ` Peter Wächtler
2002-06-12 18:32                     ` Saurabh Desai
2002-06-12 20:05                     ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-06-12 20:16                       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-13  2:57                     ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-13  9:37                       ` Peter Wächtler
2002-06-13  9:55                         ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-13 16:38                     ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-06-13 16:40                       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-13  1:32               ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-06 16:08 Martin Wirth
2002-06-06 22:59 ` Rusty Russell

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