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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:25:29 +0200
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On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 19:53 +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> With futexes we suddenly get a file descriptor for something we could never
> get a file descriptor on before and that doesn't seem to be a problem. 

FWIW

commit 82af7aca56c67061420d618cc5a30f0fd4106b80
Author: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Jan 25 10:40:46 2008 +0100

    Removal of FUTEX_FD