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Re:POSIX close(2) is broken by ajross on Saturday December 17, 2011 @10:34AM (#3364380)
Other than compatibility with 30 years of software and the huge annoyance of using an identifier that doesn't fit in a machine word. The integer file descriptor is here to stay.
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Re:POSIX close(2) is broken by JoeAltmaier on Sunday December 18, 2011 @08:55AM (#3366619)
New application environments are created all the time.

A new api that exports the true internal (uuid-based) identifier need not obsolete existing (broken) applications.

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