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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:33:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: Merging fdescfs.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011011143320.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011011160750.D696@holly.calldei.com>

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On 11-Oct-01 Chris Costello wrote:
>    There is at least one longstanding bug in the -STABLE
> implementation of fdescfs at this point, and since the -CURRENT
> code has been around for quite some time now, has had adequate
> testing time, and is generally cleaner than the original code,
> I'm all for merging the entire thing into -STABLE now that
> 4.4-RELEASE has past.  I'm not entirely sure, however, if POLA is
> a real problem in this case since so obviously few people use it,
> and I'd like your feedback as to whether it is or isn't.

What are the changes that are visible to the user in the new fdescfs
versus the old one?

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