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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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