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From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:35:43 -0700
In-Reply-To: HighWind Software Information <info@highwind.com>
       "Re: Thread Problems" (Sep 10,  1:37pm)
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On Sep 10,  1:37pm, HighWind Software Information wrote:
} Subject: Re: Thread Problems
} >   A simple solution that you can make in your application, is to close
} >   all relevent sockets after the fork and before the execl.
} 
} Seems to me that this is the only really workable solution. 
} 
} Is there a way to get "the highest numbered socket in use"?
} That would make the task easy. Just loop 0 to that number and test
} against the few sockets you need open.

Would close-on-exec also work?  If so you just need to
fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, 1) whenever you create a new socket fd.

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