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.
Rusty.
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