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On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:25:19AM +0000, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> > I am curious, what kind of kernel threads are using file table ?
> > Thanks.
> 
> I don't know all the cases of that.
> But, in the embedded world, a lot of device drivers or kernel daemons are
> opening the files to just watch and read,
> or to write some log data.

Sure, but WTF would they want file descriptors for that?  All primitives
use struct file * anyway, so...