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