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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)
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On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 05:58:53PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> > So, don't add closefrom(2), add nextfd(2).
> >
> > 	int nextfd(int fd)
> 
> Can we add "pid" argument to be able to search next fd in other task?
> Together with sys_kcmp() this will be very useful for checkpoint/restore.

You've added /proc/*/map_files for C/R making proc mandatory,
so you do have /proc/*/fd .