From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rochkind@basepath.com (Marc Rochkind) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:23:43 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Etymology of the open file table? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A ref-counted data structure organized how, for what language? Integers are really easy to work with. (Perhaps I misunderstood your post.) On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Dan Cross wrote: > This came up today at work; what's the origin of the open file table? The > suggestion was made that, instead, a ref-counted data structure could be > allocated at open() time to serve the same purpose, and that a table of > open files was superfluous. My guess was that this made it (relatively) > easy to look up what files referred to a particular device? > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: