During the 2.6.27 merge window a number of my patches were merge and now we are at the point where we can securely create file descriptors without the danger of possibly leaking information. Before I go into the details let's get some background information. A file descriptor in the Unix/POSIX world has lots of state associated with it. One bit of information determines whether the file descriptor
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