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From: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Starting a daemon on a SVR3
Message-ID: <5538@segue.segue.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 18:37:53 GMT
References: <25360@adm.brl.mil> <1752@dschub.dsc.com>
Reply-To: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Organization: Segue Software, Inc. - Santa Monica, CA. +1-213-453-2161
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In article <1752@dschub.dsc.com> 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?

	/* assuming fd 0 is known to be open */

	while ( dup(0) == 0 );
	/* for ( i = 0; close(i++) == 0; ); */
	/* guard against NFS brain damage */
	for ( i = 0; close(i++) == 0 || errno != EBADF; );