Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:00:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Which *could* be something as simple as saying "bit 30 in the file 
>> descriptor specifies a separate fd space" along with some flags to make 
>> open and friends return those separate fd's. That makes them useless for 
>> "select()" (which assumes a flat address space, of course), but would be 
>> useful for just about anything else.

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:27:15PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Or.. we could have a method of swizzling in and out an entire FD
> array, similar to UML's trick for swizzling MMs.

I like that notion even better than randomization. I think it should
happen. I like SKAS, too, of course.


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