Patent ID: 8996821
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing shared access to resources in a computing environment, the method comprising: managing access of a first process to a first resource through a Global File Descriptor (GFD) that points to a first GFD entry in a GFD table, the first GFD entry including a reference that points to a first resource entry in a resource descriptor table referencing the first resource; generating, by the first resource, a second GFD that points to a second GFD entry in the GFD table, the second GFD entry including a reference that points to a second resource entry in the resource descriptor table referencing a second resource; and managing access to the first and second resources using the first and second GFD entries in the GFD table, wherein the GFD table is common to both the first resource and the second resource and is leveraged by the first resource to access the second resource, wherein the first process accesses the first resource using the GFD table and wherein the first resource accesses the second resource using a pointer from the first resource entry in the resource descriptor table that points back to the second GFD entry referencing the second resource in the GFD table.