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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: [REVIEW] unit number allocation API
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> This is a small API I just wrote, targeted specifically for allocating
> unit numbers and similar spaces.

We already have heavily tested and benchmarked code for this in
kern_descrip.c; it shouldn't be too hard to rip it free of the file
descriptor code.

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