Re: [PATCH] sys_epoll system call interface to /dev/epoll

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> 
> Apart from the multiple vs. single system call issue, are you okay with
> the creation of an fd,file * etc. without having a device ?

Hey, that's the UNIX way. Think sockets, think pipes, think futexes. It's 
nothing new, it's been there in Unix since 1969, and the "everything is a 
file" thing has nothing to say about using "open".

		Linus