Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:05:35 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, deischen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: _cleanup() vs Linux fcloseall() Message-ID: <200603291605.36884.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0603291445520.25824-100000@sea.ntplx.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0603291445520.25824-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
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On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:54, Daniel Eischen wrote: > It seems that some 3rd party code, pmake in particular, rely on > the implementation exporting _cleanup() to close all open file > descriptors. Linux supplies fcloseall() and does not export > _cleanup(). > > In the initial cut of symbol versioning for libc, I did not > export _cleanup(). This breaks pmake, and perhaps some other > 3rd party applications. Do we want to continue to export this > interface, or should we provide an equivalent of Linux' > fcloseall()? I would vote for fcloseall() personally. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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