Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:45:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Cc: jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990722134515.21011E-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <99Jul22.115150est.40336@border.alcanet.com.au>
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I am not sure I see a need for this syscall... julian On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com> wrote: > > I like this approach. I have a number of often spawned daemon > >processes that could benefit from this. > I don't suppose that you have any statistics showing that the > for (i = 3; i < getdtablesize(); i++) close(i); > approach would be too slow? > > > For naming convention considerations, I might suggest 'closeall' > >or 'closefdset' or something similar... at least have 'close' in > >name... :-) > > I'm not really keen on the name either - but I couldn't think of > anything better. `closeall' isn't really descriptive since it doesn't > close all the FDs. `closefdset' suggests (to me, anyway) the opposite > behaviour: ie closing the FDs specified in the passed fd_set, instead > of closing everything else. > > Peter > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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