On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Scott K. Ellis wrote: >On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Russell Coker wrote: > >> What is a close(-1) supposed to do? The http program does one and I'm >> curious >> as to why... > >IIRC, close(-1) closes all open file handles. I'm not certain exactly >wher this is documented though.
It really doesn't seem to be doing so on Linux 2.2.0. Surely if it was closing file descriptors then it would return 0... Here's a grep of my output from the stracing of dselect I did earlier: /tmp/out.24701:close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) /tmp/out.24702:close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) /tmp/out.24702:close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) /tmp/out.24702:close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) /tmp/out.24703:close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) /tmp/out.24704:close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) -- I am in London and would like to meet any Linux users here. I plan to work in London for 6 months and then I might move to some other place where the pay is good.
