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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:54:54 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com>
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Subject: Re: close return value (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks)
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Hi,

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Elladan wrote:
> Two threads share the file descriptor table.  
> 
>   1. Thread 1 performs close() on a file descriptor.  close fails.
>   2. Thread 2 performs open().
> * 3. Thread 1 performs close() again, just to make sure.

Thread 2 shouldn't be able to reuse a currently open fd. This application 
design is seriously broken.

							Regards,
							Thunder
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