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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:00:53 -0700
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On 04/10/2012 05:09 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> 
> I know the reason. fcntl(F_NEXT) is one of a proposal of next SUS enhancement.
> 
>   http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=149
> 
> nextfd() has a semantics of F_NEXT.
> 

Looking at that bug report, it sounds like that proposal was rejected.

	-hpa