[8] in 6.033-lab
Re: Sequential Request ID problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nat Friedman)
Fri Mar 7 00:04:20 1997
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 00:03:52 -0500
From: Nat Friedman <ndf@aleph1.mit.edu>
To: "Minh T. Thai" <mtthai@MIT.EDU>
Cc: 6.033-lab@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199703070500.AAA02989@cinderelly.mit.edu>
Minh T. Thai writes:
> Hi Nat:
>
> But when a client crashes and restart right away it's likely that it will get the same socket fd, even though the two are different.
Yes, but this is not relevant. A socket FD is just an index into an array
of inode pointers in the kernel. They are only meaningful within the context
of one process.
-Nat
