* Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ed Schouten wrote:
>> Woops! Sorry for responding this late, but it looks like I didn't
>> explain myself good enough. Sorry. :) To rephrase myself:
>> Wouldn't it be better to just implement fcntl(..., F_CLOSEM, ...) in the
>> kernel and make closefrom() a simple libc routine:
>> void
>> closefrom(int lowfd)
>> {
>> fcntl(lowfd, F_CLOSEM, NULL);
>> }
>
> what on earth would that achieve?
> (as opposed to just a simple syscall)Compatability with an existing implementation. -- Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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