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Cc: deischen@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Subject: Re: _cleanup() vs Linux fcloseall()
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Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote on 30 Mar 2006 19:16:
> On Thu, 2006-Mar-30 00:41:00 +0200, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> >FWIW, NetBSD has something that close all the file descriptors, and it's
> >done with fcntl(fd, F_CLOSEM) (using fcntl() on one file descriptor to
> >close all of them looks a bit weird to me, but well...).
> 
> If it close any fd's numerically greater than the passed fd, that would
> make a lot of sense.

Yes. It is also implemented in IBM AIX (and I believe in SGI IRIX, 
too).
see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.doc/libs/basetrf1/fcntl.htm

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