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kennylevinsen

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    There as nothing in the Lufthansa plans or policies that would make this flight or landing impossible, unreasonable or unsafe. I imagine this landing at night is not a first either…

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    Comment #29817225

    > That would depend on if you knew more about how the code is intended to work than the original author of the code. Do you presume to know more about how this code is intended to …

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    Comment #29817079

    > The "well-designed" argument here is a bit No True Scotsman, and absolutely not true. This counter arguments can be interpreted as a mere No True Scotsman of "responsiveness", so…

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    Comment #29794206

    > All well-designed interactive GUI applications do not interact with the file system on their main thread I strongly disagree. A well-designed interactive GUI application can abso…

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    Comment #29785959

    As mentioned elsewhere, the file descriptor table is an array and a bitmask - finding the next fd is a matter of finding the first unset bit, which is extremely efficient. And that…

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    Comment #29785101

    This sounds like premature optimization. FD availability is tracked in a bitmask, and finding the next available slot is a matter of scanning for the first unset bit under a spinlo…

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    Comment #29780916

    This argument does not make sense - the kernel already needs to track per-process file descriptors. It just looks for the first hole instead of giving the "next" value. Go's random…

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    Comment #29779813

    You would not use io_uring for things like that. Not only will you still use regular file operations on device files for various reasons, should you chose to use io_uring you would…

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    Comment #29779769

    Patch author here. It is important to not conflate POSIX requirements with expected behavior, especially for device files which require very specific knowledge of their implementat…