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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:18:34 +0100
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>,
	Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
From: mouss <usebsd@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [kernel patch] fcntl(...) to close many descriptors
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At 12:28 29/01/01 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
><<On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:45:10 -0800 (PST), Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> 
>said:
>
> > kind-of, though the function name should be a string and not
> > an integer (easier to extend/allocate), and it should allow
> > return values in user-supplied buffers, same as ioctl/fcntl
> > calls do.
>
>dlsym()

you mean at user level?
That's certainly possible, but I think this is way more than we need.
strcmp() is ok given the number of syscalls.



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