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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:31:17 -0600
From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
Cc: mouss <usebsd@free.fr>, drosih@rpi.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: [kernel patch] fcntl(...) to close many descriptors
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On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:37:16AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> do we have (or could we design) a generic mechanism for machine-specific
> syscalls which are not available on all OS ?
> 
> basically i am thinking of something like
> 
> 	generic_syscall("fdcloseall", ....);

Do you mean like syscall(2)?
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org


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