1. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a data processing device, causes the data processing device to: receive a processing queue entry from a processing queue associated with an application instance, wherein the processing queue entry references a file; verify that the file associated with the processing queue entry is associated with the application instance using a file protection table data structure; and process the processing queue entry if the file referenced by the processing queue entry is associated with the application instance, wherein the processing queue entry is received in an input/output (I/O) adapter directly from the application instance without intervention by a system image of a host system.