Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2

[Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> > for (i = 0; i < NR_OPEN; i++)
> > 	if (!fd_is_special_to_us(i))
> > 		close(i);
> > 
> > Note that this is conceptually buggy, but occurs in several major C  
> > programming books, most of the major shells, and a lot of other  
> > software to boot.
> 
> Buggy in what way?  In the use of the NR_OPEN constant?

That is typical daemonize code done by quite a few apps, and even 
described in many unix network programming books. Now say that before that 
you loaded a library that had an internal fd allocated to get some sort of 
services from the kernel (say an epoll fd). What happens when the library 
uses the cached apoll fd after that loop?



- Davide


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