Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:05:46 +0200 From: "Frank Behrens" <frank@pinky.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: deischen@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Subject: Re: _cleanup() vs Linux fcloseall() Message-ID: <200603300905.k2U95mXN031215@pinky.frank-behrens.de> In-Reply-To: <20060330081619.GB736@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20060329224100.GB2293@elvis.mu.org>
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Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote on 30 Mar 2006 19:16: > On Thu, 2006-Mar-30 00:41:00 +0200, Maxime Henrion wrote: > >FWIW, NetBSD has something that close all the file descriptors, and it's > >done with fcntl(fd, F_CLOSEM) (using fcntl() on one file descriptor to > >close all of them looks a bit weird to me, but well...). > > If it close any fd's numerically greater than the passed fd, that would > make a lot of sense. Yes. It is also implemented in IBM AIX (and I believe in SGI IRIX, too). see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.doc/libs/basetrf1/fcntl.htm -- Frank Behrens, Osterwieck, Germany PGP-key 0x5B7C47ED on public servers available.
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