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Re: timing problem in fd_check_entry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Provenzano)
Mon Sep 30 14:34:49 1996
Reply-To: proven@cygnus.com
To: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy@healthcare.com>
Cc: pthreads@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Sep 1996 10:27:33 MDT."
<324EA375.7354CF10@healthcare.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:12:27 -0400
From: Christopher Provenzano <proven@proven.org>
The point of fd_check_entry is to ensure that the fd_table[entry] exists.
I didn't want to allocate all the fd_table[] slots at init time because
it would be a waste of space if the process only used a few fds. Once
allocated though they are never deallocated.
CAP
