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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: light weight user level semaphores
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:34:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AE44B9A.DA8A5CCA@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14qHRp-0007Yc-00@the-village.bc.nu> <Pine.LNX.4.31.0104190944090.4074-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <E14qXEU-0005xo-00@g212.hadiko.de> <9bqgvi$63q$1@penguin.transmeta.com>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Trust me. You're arguing for clearly broken behaviour. malloc() and
> friends MUST NOT open file descriptors. It _will_ break programs that
> rely on traditional and documented features.

Indeed; STDIN_FILENO and friends are constants...

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | The difference between America and England is that
Building 1024    | the English think 100 miles is a long distance and
MandrakeSoft     | the Americans think 100 years is a long time.
                 |      (random fortune)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-23 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20010417114433.D1108@w-mikek2.sequent.com>
2001-04-17 19:48 ` light weight user level semaphores Linus Torvalds
2001-04-18 18:13   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-04-18 19:35   ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-19  8:20     ` Alon Ziv
2001-04-19  8:52       ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-04-19  9:08         ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-19 10:44           ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-04-19 16:11         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-19 16:33           ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-19 16:43             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-19 17:33               ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-19 17:38                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-19 18:24                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-19 19:26                   ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-19 19:35                     ` Alan Cox
2001-04-19 20:06                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-19 20:11                         ` Alan Cox
2001-04-19 20:26                           ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-19 20:22                     ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-19 20:40                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-19 20:51                       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-19 21:38                       ` Alan Cox
2001-04-19 20:49                     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-19 21:18                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-19 21:41                         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-19 22:46                           ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-20  1:35                             ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-20  2:45                               ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-19 16:43           ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-04-19 20:47           ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-19 20:54             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-19  9:08       ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-19 11:51       ` Alan Cox
2001-04-19 16:03       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-19 16:38         ` Alan Cox
2001-04-19 16:46           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-19 17:12             ` Alan Cox
2001-04-19 22:35               ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-20  9:29             ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-20 14:19               ` Jesse Pollard
2001-04-20 18:36                 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-20 23:33               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-21  4:06                 ` fd allocation [was: light weight user level semaphores] Edgar Toernig
2001-04-22  9:48                   ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-22 11:41                     ` light weight user level semaphores Alon Ziv
2001-04-22 12:44                       ` Alan Cox
2001-04-22 15:19                         ` Alon Ziv
2001-04-22 14:31                           ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-22 16:08                             ` Alon Ziv
2001-04-22 11:41                     ` Alon Ziv
2001-04-22 14:18                     ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 13:19                       ` David Howells
2001-04-23 14:48                         ` Alon Ziv
2001-04-23 15:40                           ` David Howells
2001-04-21 10:13                 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-23 15:34                 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-04-23 19:18             ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-24  0:19             ` David Wagner
2001-04-24  0:41               ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-19 19:47           ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-19 18:48         ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-19 13:59 George Talbot

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