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Date:      Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:00:21 +0800
From:      LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, d@delphij.net, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
Subject:   Re: add closefrom() call
Message-ID:  <4691DD05.2090407@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070706174321.M17956@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <de5dfb5a0707041727j3e3518f9l5a019717a9f90aa@mail.gmail.com> <20070705122650.GE1302@britannica.bec.de> <468E16E6.6030608@delphij.net> <20070706112453.GA3217@hoeg.nl> <468E7007.5050607@elischer.org> <20070706174321.M17956@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson wrote:
> The Solaris implementation appears to implement two strategies:
>=20
> (1) If procfs is mounted, list the fd directory to get a list of open f=
ds,
>     then close those by number.
>=20
> (2) If procfs is not mounted, query the number of open fds using the
> resource
>     limit interface, then sequentially close until the right number clo=
se.
>=20
> Hence my question as to whether there's actually a big benefit or not -=
-
> do we think closefrom() is a performance-critical function?

Nope.

I will try to see if we have some way to expose lastfile to userland, or
whether we have some better approach to implement this in userland next
week if I would have some spare time...

Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!


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