Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 May 1999 08:28:14 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: FD_CLFORK or equivalent? |
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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <Pine.QNX.3.96.990504112943.30630A-100000@sam.cogent.ca> you wrote: > > If not, before I hack one in as a private kernel patch, is > > there any reason to add such a mechanism, perhaps a FD_CLOFORK > > flag, and does anybody have suggestions on where to start? > > A reason would be, that this is a good way of making daemons. Since closing > all fds from 0-255 is not enough on systems where high-numberes fds can be > open. > But... The 'standard' way is:
fd = open("/", O_RDONLY); while (fd >= 0) (void)close(fd--);
Cheers, Dick Johnson ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.2.6 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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