Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous Interface | Date | Fri, 07 Jun 2002 09:21:33 +1000 |
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206060930240.5920-100000@home.transmeta.com> you wri te: > Do we have major and minor numbers for sockets and populate /dev > with them? No. And as a result, there has _never_ been any sysadmin > problems with either.
Ummm... you don't do much network programming, do you Linus? Don't confuse familiarity with fondness: the socket API is *not* a good model to copy.
> You already have to have a system call to bind the particular fd to the > futex _anyway_, so do the only sane thing, and allocate the fd _there_, > and get rid of that stupid and horrible /dev/futed which only buys you > pain, system administration, extra code, and a black star for being > stupid.
Yet another special way to create a special fd? Hmm...
That might be better than what I proposed, but it's not the epitomy of taste either.
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