Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:25:20 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: why isn't the FSEXT hook implemented for dup in 2.03?
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Ken Yap wrote:

> I found that there is no hook from dup to FSEXT, so I can't dup network
> sockets in WATT-32. Why isn't the dup hook to FSEXT implemented yet?

Two reasons:

  - It's tricky, since FSEXT itself calls dup internally (to produce a
    valid file handle that __FSEXT_alloc_fd returns).

  - When this was discussed, it seemed to be rather unnecessary to
    hook dup.  Can you explain under what circumstances do you need
    this, and why?