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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:26:50 +0200
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: add closefrom() call
Message-ID:  <20070705122650.GE1302@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <de5dfb5a0707041727j3e3518f9l5a019717a9f90aa@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <de5dfb5a0707041727j3e3518f9l5a019717a9f90aa@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:27:49PM -0400, Ighighi Ighighi wrote:
> The closefrom() call, available in Solaris, is present in NetBSD since
> version 3.0.
> It is implemented with the F_CLOSEM fcntl() available since version 2.0.

You could also add a system call like it was done in DragonFly. That
might be even simpler to implement.

Joerg



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