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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Starting a daemon on a SVR3
Message-ID: <1991Jan03.132149.3565@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 3 Jan 91 13:21:49 GMT
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jky@neptune.dsc.com (Jacob Kan Yu) writes:
>What's about this:

>    for ( i = 0 ; i < NOFILE ; i++ )
>	close( i );

>The problem I have is that "NOFILE" is 20 for System V/386 Release 3.0 and is
>60 for Release 3.2 and the comments in "<sys/param.h>" says this number is
>no longer a constant and should be removed in the next release.  Anybody
>have better idea?

yes [if you have posix stuff]:

    for ( i = 0 ; i < sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) ; i++ )
	close( i );
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