Ed Schouten wrote:
* LI Xin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here is my implementation for FreeBSD. Some difference between my and
DragonFly's implementation:
- closefrom(-1) would be no-op on DragonFly, my version would close all
open files (From my understanding of OpenSolaris's userland
implementation, this is Solaris's behavior).
- my version closefrom(very_big_fd) would result in EBADF. I am not
very sure whether this is correct, but it does not hurt for applications
that thinks closefrom() would return void.
Wouldn't it be better to just implement it through fcntl() and implement
closefrom() in libc?
that's a possibility but I personally thing the huge difference in efficiency
makes it worth putting it in the kernel.
Quite a few programs I know of could really help their startup time with this as
the first thing they do is "close the first 2000 file descriptors.
_______________________________________________
freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
