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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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        (message from Tigran Aivazian on Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:09:17 +0000
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Subject: Re: bug in count_open_files() or a strange granularity?
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Please just finally tell us what you are trying to do with
all this instead of just pointing out side-effect details.

What are you trying to do that requires counting the number
of open files?

It all smells very fishy, as Alexander stated.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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