Starting a daemon on a SVR3

[Jim Balter]

In article <1752 at dschub.dsc.com> jky at 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; );