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SubjectRe: light weight user level semaphores
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Trust me. You're arguing for clearly broken behaviour. malloc() and
> friends MUST NOT open file descriptors. It _will_ break programs that
> rely on traditional and documented features.

Indeed; STDIN_FILENO and friends are constants...

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Building 1024 | the English think 100 miles is a long distance and
MandrakeSoft | the Americans think 100 years is a long time.
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