> At the Expo, Larry McVoy made a suggestion that we allow reads and
> writes to specify some form of token to identify the data being
> transfered, without actually having to make the data visible in user
> space at all.
why cannot this 'token' be a file descriptor (like in Linus's suggestion)?
Is there any valid case where we cannot associate 'stuff to be
transferred' with a 'file'?
-- mingo
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