22 Mar
2016
22 Mar
'16
8:23 a.m.
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 <crossd(a)gmail.com> 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?