Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:00:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: mouss <usebsd@free.fr> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [kernel patch] fcntl(...) to close many descriptors Message-ID: <200101262000.f0QK0HJ35675@earth.backplane.com> References: <4.3.0.20010126193228.06e2a200@bluesun> <4.3.0.20010126204903.06d58910@pop.free.fr>
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:At 10:33 26/01/01 -0800, Matt Dillon wrote:
:> I think it is worth doing. A quick google search shows that
:> the linux folks discussed the AIX thingy in March 1999, but
:> I don't think they actually implemented. From the discussion,
:> it appears that the fcntl would be useful and (not having seen
:> your patches), almost certainly trivial to implement.
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:you're right. (I can resend it as a tar file...)
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:*** kern_descrip.c Fri Jan 26 19:42:18 2001
:--- kern_descrip.c.new Fri Jan 26 20:24:07 2001
:...
Yah, something like that. You can test whether the descriptor
is valid before calling close() on it, which should make it a lot
faster.
-Matt
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