Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755470AbXFIFl6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2007 01:41:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752381AbXFIFlw (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2007 01:41:52 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:52468 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751631AbXFIFlv (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2007 01:41:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18026.15766.574693.200636@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:41:42 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Alan Cox , Theodore Tso , Ulrich Drepper , Eric Dumazet , Kyle Moffett , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2 In-Reply-To: References: <466741BD.20106@redhat.com> <20070607110432.73be7960@the-village.bc.nu> <20070607151243.22caab9e.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <466864F8.2050903@cosmosbay.com> <46686810.6030805@redhat.com> <466880A4.3090908@redhat.com> <20070608120746.GD12687@thunk.org> <20070608140150.6f31672f@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 588 Lines: 15 Davide Libenzi writes: > The only reason we use a floating base, is because Uli preferred to have > non-exactly predictable fd allocations. There no reason of re-doing the > same POSIX mistake all over again: Why must everything that makes things a bit simpler and more predictable for application programmers be called a "mistake"? Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/