From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] Etymology of the open file table?
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:56:52 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160322025652.GA21181@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160322022808.GA24345@mcvoy.com>
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 07:28:08PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> So if you think about it you need two levels, the fd that is per open
> that knows the offset, and the fd to the object in question. The file
> table is the latter.
Dennis notes this issue in his Evolution paper:
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html
just about the IO Redirection heading.
Cheers, Warren
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-22 2:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-22 2:07 Dan Cross
2016-03-22 2:23 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-03-22 2:28 ` Larry McVoy
2016-03-22 2:56 ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2016-03-22 3:02 ` Dan Cross
2016-03-22 3:02 ` Dan Cross
2016-03-22 4:00 ` John Cowan
2016-03-22 4:11 ` Warner Losh
2016-03-23 19:48 ` Dan Cross
2016-03-23 20:17 ` John Cowan
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