On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:25:11PM +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote: > On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 11:04 +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > > When these mechanisms will be ready, a deamon will be unable to close > > all its file descriptors (unless it closes the whole range of fd > > (0--2^16 ?) or unless an application can get a list of its open fds).
> This seems to be quite common code (from one of my packages (cvsd), > don't know what the original source for this code was): > m=sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX); > for (i=0;i<m;i++) > close(i); > There are hurd packages for this package so that should also work. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) does anything useful on Hurd at runtime. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]