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Date:      Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:28:41 +0800
From:      LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Ighighi Ighighi <ighighi@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: add closefrom() call
Message-ID:  <468CD5E9.7060000@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <de5dfb5a0707041727j3e3518f9l5a019717a9f90aa@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <de5dfb5a0707041727j3e3518f9l5a019717a9f90aa@mail.gmail.com>

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Ighighi Ighighi wrote:
> The closefrom() call, available in Solaris, is present in NetBSD since
> version 3.0.
> It is implemented with the F_CLOSEM fcntl() available since version 2.0=
=2E

I think it might worth an effort (sendmail and perhaps some part of JDK
uses it IIRC), but I do not want to rush it into -CURRENT unless we have
test cases to make sure that we have done things correctly, because I do
not have a NetBSD nor Solaris box at hand to experiment its behavior... :=
-(

Do you have some test cases for this?

Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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