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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Starting a daemon on a SVR3
Message-ID: <5697:Jan423:05:2891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 91 23:05:28 GMT
References: <25360@adm.brl.mil> <1752@dschub.dsc.com> <1991Jan03.132149.3565@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
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In article <1991Jan03.132149.3565@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:
>     for ( i = 0 ; i < sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) ; i++ )
> 	close( i );

i = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX);
while(i)
  close(--i);

There's no reason to be unnecessarily inefficient (or verbose), or to
clog trace logs.

---Dan