chip@valinux.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> AFAIK, Alex Viro's idea of bindable namespaces provides effective
> transaction support *ONLY* if there are per-process bindings. With
> per-process bindings, each client that opens a connection does so
> through a distinct binding; when that client's responses go back
> through the same binding, only that client can see them.
Not really. We can both open /proc/partitions, read one char at a
time, and the kernel won't confuse our read positions. Different
file opens create different instances of state. See struct file,
void *private_data for how to store arbitrary data.
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