On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:01:16 +0100 Bernd Petrovitsch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thoughts? > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1315382/closing-all-open-files-in-a-process > has something: > - Use https://man.openbsd.org/closefrom.2 - which doesn't exist on > Linux. > - use getdtablesize() > - use sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) As Denys notes another common magic value seen in the wild is 1024. RLIMIT_NOFILE, SC_OPEN_MAX, POSIX_OPEN_MAX, FOPEN_MAX come to mind, too. Maybe someone should file a defect against SUS/POSIX to mandate something sensible throughout, at least mid- or longterm? thanks, _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
