Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

[Felix von Leitner]

Thus spake Jamie Lokier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> You would need to use a new open() flag: O_ANYFD.
> The requirement comes from this like this:

>   close (0);
>   close (1);
>   close (2);
>   open ("/dev/console", O_RDWR);
>   dup ();
>   dup ();

So it's not actually part of POSIX, it's just to get around fixing
legacy code? ;-)

Felix
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