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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:27:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> 
> Apart from the multiple vs. single system call issue, are you okay with
> the creation of an fd,file * etc. without having a device ?

Hey, that's the UNIX way. Think sockets, think pipes, think futexes. It's 
nothing new, it's been there in Unix since 1969, and the "everything is a 
file" thing has nothing to say about using "open".

		Linus

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