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From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 13:36:21 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days?
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On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 07:06:17AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> +1 on what Ron said.  I don't get the rationale for going back to ptrace.
> Anyone know what it is?  Is there a perf issue?

The usual rationale presented is that someone can exhaust the fd table
and then you can't get anything done.  Instead of fixing that problem,
the popular approach is to add more syscalls, like with getrandom(2).

khm