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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:53:02 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: add closefrom() call
Message-ID:  <4693C77E.7070806@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070710123634.GD1194@britannica.bec.de>
References:  <46930106.3040503@gmail.com> <20070710123634.GD1194@britannica.bec.de>

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Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:46:14PM -0400, Ighighi wrote:
>> Calling F_MAXFD everytime we close a file descriptor would be heavy 
>> having too much fd's.
>> On the other hand, it wouldn't make much a difference to just start from 
>> getdtablesize() - 1.
> 
> I fully agree. That is the second version of closefrom in DragonFly --
> for the purpose of libc_r BTW.

This is silly..
All the code needed to do this is already in the kernel.
It's needed at exit time.
Make a syscall as a front end to it and be done with it.


> 
> Joerg
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