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File descriptor handling changes in 2.6.27File descriptor handling changes in 2.6.27Posted Mar 2, 2011 19:25 UTC (Wed) by gps (subscriber, #45638)In reply to: File descriptor handling changes in 2.6.27 by quotemstr Parent article: File descriptor handling changes in 2.6.27
But closefrom() does need to be async-signal-safe so that it can safely be called after a fork().
Sadly it does not look like the Solaris implementation http://www.unix.com/man-page/All/3c/closefrom/ is safe which makes me wonder what the point of implementing it at all was...
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