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Il 26/08/2013 10:23, Yann Droneaud ha scritto:
> 
> Sounds a lot like InfiniBand subsystem behavor: IB file descriptors
> are of no use accross exec() since memory mappings tied to those fds
> won't be available in the new process:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/8/380
> http://mid.gmane.org/f58540dc64fec1ac0e496dfcd3cc1af7@meuh.org

Yes, it is very similar.

Paolo