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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: DISCUSS: system open file table 
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 17:12:00 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I would like to suggest functionally seperating process descriptor
> management from system open file table management.

Sounds good to me.  Being able to do reasonably trivial file I/O from
inside the kernel seems to make it enough of a win to go for it just
on that basis alone.

Gotten any nibbles from people actually willing and/or able to help
you with the implmentation?

					Jordan