I am not sure I see a need for this syscall...
julian
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> "John W. DeBoskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I like this approach. I have a number of often spawned daemon
> >processes that could benefit from this.
> I don't suppose that you have any statistics showing that the
> for (i = 3; i < getdtablesize(); i++) close(i);
> approach would be too slow?
>
> > For naming convention considerations, I might suggest 'closeall'
> >or 'closefdset' or something similar... at least have 'close' in
> >name... :-)
>
> I'm not really keen on the name either - but I couldn't think of
> anything better. `closeall' isn't really descriptive since it doesn't
> close all the FDs. `closefdset' suggests (to me, anyway) the opposite
> behaviour: ie closing the FDs specified in the passed fd_set, instead
> of closing everything else.
>
> Peter
>
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