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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:06:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [kernel patch] fcntl(...) to close many descriptors
Message-ID:  <200101291906.OAA36539@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200101291902.f0TJ2tx34193@iguana.aciri.org>
References:  <200101291833.f0TIXDF67092@earth.backplane.com> <200101291902.f0TJ2tx34193@iguana.aciri.org>

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<<On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:02:45 -0800 (PST), Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> said:

> And, this mechanism would be explicitly used for "non portable" or
> experimental functions (such as the closeall() which started the
> thread, or next time someone comes up with a start_http_server_thread())
> and avoiding overloading an existing syscall or having to modify
> libc

This assumes that experimental functionality is always going to
implemented as a system call.

-GAWollman



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