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From: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson)
To: tiller@connectnet.com ("That Doug Guy")
Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org ("FreeBSD Questions")
Subject: Re: Info on "I686_CPU" and FDESC  UPDATE
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In the last episode (Jan 17), "That Doug Guy" said:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 97 01:46:01 -0800, That Doug Guy wrote:
> 
> >Also, we run an IRC server on this system that makes heavy use of File 
> >Descriptors.  Would installing support for the FDESC filesystem be of use 
> >to me?  
> 
> 	Got one response to this which was a firm no.  Anyone else?

I second that no.  All fdesc buys you is the ability to reference file
descriptors by name, as in /dev/fd/0 for fd 0, etc.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com