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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:10:40 +0100
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] locking
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> does the synethetic file protocol have request ids

I'am afriad not, and the overhead of matching IDs would be too great.

> you could use a cache of already-opened fds; 
> that would only grow to the number of active requests,
> not the number of threads.

I like this though.

I admit I have since found a really ugly solution that is too
vile to describe, it's saving grace is it's speed. However I
will try opening new fds on demand when I get a chance, its
probably nearly as fast and nothing like so embarrasing.

-Steve