From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Oleg Verych <olecom@gmail.com>
Cc: dAsh <dash@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Features.
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:09:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <473799B9.7080804@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8499950a0711111459h33921caaxde3111fb2b719fea@mail.gmail.com>
Oleg Verych wrote:
>
> 5.2 IMHO making user accessible file descriptors in range of [3-9] is
> kind of silly, when open() returns lowest available fd number,
> and shell have no semantics of saying "no, this fd is used already".
>
> Making them in higher and wider region, say in [100-255] is
> quite reasonable. Making them as special variables, like
> parameters `$1' are, makes even more sense, thus preventing any
> potential problems.
>
Everyone is using 3-9 though. I would suggest just moving the lower
limit higher, e.g. 3-99.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-12 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-11 22:59 Features Oleg Verych
2007-11-12 0:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-11-15 9:05 ` select() for file descriptors (Re: Features.) Oleg Verych
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