Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: introduce sendfd() syscall

From: Richard Cochran
Date: Wed Dec 03 2014 - 05:41:54 EST


On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:17:37AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Come on guys, get a cup of coffee and relax a bit...

I am relaxed, especially after I had a good laugh reading this:

On a less related note, I hope you will agree that the simpler
mechanism for this very in-demand feature is long overdue on Linux
(every man and his dog are passing fds around these days).

Really, in years and years of unix programming, I have not yet felt
the need to pass a file descriptor. Thats goes double for my dogs.

In any case, I find it hard to believe that the traditional method is
really so bad. The explanation of why this new way is needed boils
down to: "unix programming is so hard to get right."

Thanks,
Richard
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