Thus spake Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu):
> if you read my (radical) proposal, the identification is based on a kernel
> pointer and a 256-bit random integer. So non-negative integers are not
> needed. (file-IO system-calls would be modified to detect if 'Unix file
> descriptors' or pointers to 'native file descriptors' are passed to them,
> so this is truly radical.)
Yuck, don't pass pointers in kernel space to user space!
NT does it and look what kernel call argument verification havoc it
wrought over them!
Felix
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