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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Starting a daemon on a SVR3
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.120554.884@erbe.se>
Date: 7 Jan 91 12:05:54 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:

>yes [if you have posix stuff]:
>
>    for ( i = 0 ; i < sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) ; i++ )
>	close( i );

But is it really nessecary to close all files in order to create a daemon
under System V? I haven't done it, and yet everything seems to work as
it should.

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