How exactly?  Maybe I'm being dense today.  Having used up the lowest
available fd, how do you find the next-lowest one, the next open()?  I
can't think of anything that isn't O(n).  (Sure you can amortize it
different ways by keeping lists of fds, etc.)
Peter
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