Starting a daemon on a SVR3

[Mike Stefanik/78125]

In article <1991Jan03.132149.3565 at scuzzy.in-berlin.de> src at scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:
[question about closing all open file descriptors]
>yes [if you have posix stuff]:
>
>    for ( i = 0 ; i < sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) ; i++ )
>	close( i );

Since file descriptors are guaranteed to be assigned sequentially; whynot
simply do:

	i=0;
	while ( close(i++) != -1 )
		;

This would work without any soon-to-be-defunct #define's, and any gee-what-
is-POSIX libraries.  Just a thought.

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