How is this an API quirk? It's normal and expected behaviour with file-handles in Unix.

Posted Nov 5, 2025 15:46 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: How is this an API quirk? It's normal and expected behaviour with file-handles in Unix. by paulj
Parent article: Namespace reference counting and listns()

They are new with regard to namespaces, but file handles are a fairly old concept; I think they had their origin with NFS many years ago.