On Wed, 30 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > for (i = 0; i < NR_OPEN; i++) > > close(i); > > > > to clean up all file descriptors before doing something new. And yes, I > > think it was bash that used to *literally* do something like that a long > > time ago. > > Indeed. It was not only bash, though, I fixed probably a dozen > applications. But even the new and better solution (readdir of > /proc/self/fd) does not prevent the problem of closing descriptors the > system might still need and the application doesn't know about.
Please, do not drop me out of the Cc list. If you have a valid point, you should be able to carry it forward regardless, no? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
