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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2000 02:32:59 +0100 (BST)
From:      Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:        jlemon@flugsvamp.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Cc:        alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), jlemon@flugsvamp.com (Jonathan Lemon), gid@cisco.com (Gideon Glass), sim@stormix.com (Simon Kirby), dank@alumni.caltech.edu (Dan Kegel), chat@freebsd.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject:   Re: kqueue microbenchmark results
Message-ID:  <E13oyOE-00044z-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20001026201042.A38500@prism.flugsvamp.com> from "Jonathan Lemon" at Oct 26, 2000 08:10:42 PM

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> the application of a close event.  What can I say, "the fd formerly known
> as X" is now gone?  It would be incorrect to say that "fd X was closed",
> since X no longer refers to anything, and the application may have reused
> that fd for another file.

Which is precisely why you need to know where in the chain of events this
happened. Otherwise if I see

	'read on fd 5'
	'read on fd 5'

How do I know which read is for which fd in the multithreaded case

> As for the multi-thread case, this would be a bug; if one thread closes
> the descriptor, the other thread is going to get an EBADF when it goes 
> to perform the read.

Another thread may already have reused the fd



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