From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 12:37:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C59D16A468 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:37:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joerg@britannica.bec.de) Received: from www.pkgsrc-box.org (www.ostsee-abc.de [62.206.222.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFEBA13C44C for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:37:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joerg@britannica.bec.de) Received: from britannica.bec.de (www.pkgsrc-box.org [127.0.0.1]) by www.pkgsrc-box.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC31E7A3FA for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:37:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by britannica.bec.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5C6627D70; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:36:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:36:35 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070710123634.GD1194@britannica.bec.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <46930106.3040503@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46930106.3040503@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Subject: Re: add closefrom() call X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:37:25 -0000 On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:46:14PM -0400, Ighighi wrote: > Calling F_MAXFD everytime we close a file descriptor would be heavy > having too much fd's. > On the other hand, it wouldn't make much a difference to just start from > getdtablesize() - 1. I fully agree. That is the second version of closefrom in DragonFly -- for the purpose of libc_r BTW. Joerg