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Date:      Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:33:10 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c kern_exec.c src/sys/sys filedesc.h
Message-ID:  <20020419153310.GD31829@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <200204191445.g3JEjXSg095842@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020419103914.64976x-100000@fledge.watson.org> <200204191445.g3JEjXSg095842@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:45:33PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> The spec is dup(2).  It's not documented in open(2), but people make 
> the assumption.

It's not just an assumption.

Stevens's APUE p49, in the description of `open':
  ``The file descriptor returned by open is guaranteed to be the
    lowest numbered unused descriptor.''

McKusick, et. al.'s daemon book, p34:
  ``The open, pipe, and socket system calls produce new descriptors
    with the lowest unused number usable for a descriptor.''

ISO/IEC 9945-1: 1996 ANSI/IEEE Std 1003.1, 1996 Edition, section
5.3.1.2:
  ``The open() function shall return a file descriptor for the named
  file that is the lowest file descriptor not currently open for that
  process.''

IEEE Std 1003.1-2001:
  ``The open() function shall return a file descriptor for the named file
  that is the lowest file descriptor not currently open for that
  process.''
  
et cetera
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