Re: Reflection and /proc

["Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@noris.de>]

Hi,

Dominik Kubla:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 09:51:40AM +0100, Davide Bolcioni wrote:
> > I harbor the impression that the Linux/Unix system call API provides an
> > adequate "set" interface but not the corresponding "get" interface: for
> > example, how do I get the number of files currently open in my process ?
> > One way could be to loop from 0 to getdtablesize() - 1 and
> > fcntl(F_GETFL), counting successes. Well, not much of an example.
> 
> Right, because the correct answer to your question is getrusage(2).
> 
getrusage() doesn't tell me how many files are open, nor does it tell me
the maximum number of files I ever had open at the same time. Both might be
good to know sometimes, but OTOH you can count them for yourself quite
easily...

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