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From: mouss <usebsd@free.fr>
To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: [kernel patch] fcntl(...) to close many descriptors
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:30:58 +0100
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Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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There is a closeall() in NetBSD libc (it's a loop on close()).
I suggest using the same name, and adding the function for all the *bsd.


On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> [snip]
> On the other hand, I seem to remember this being done (in some
> other program, if not in lpr) because closeallfds *is* a system
> routine in some place or another. The intent of closeallfds is
> the same as what you have implemented, as it is:
>     void closeallfds(int start);
> [snip]

cheers,
mouss


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