On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Frank Behrens wrote: > Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy_at_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 fcloseall() closes and flushes all FILEs, not file descriptors. Libc needs to perform this work since that is where FILEs are allocated. fcntl() is a system call. -- DEReceived on Thu Mar 30 2006 - 10:46:44 UTC
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