Re: Reflection and /proc

[Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>]

Dominik Kubla wrote:
>I see  where you're  aiming, but  IMHO this  is not  necessary at  all. The
>application should do  it's own bookkeeping and know  what file descriptors
>are  open. As  for your  example: i  very much  prefer the  penalty for  an
>unecessary system  call to  added complexity and  possible incompatibility:
>Did you ever try  to port from/to HP-UX? Their pty  handling will drive you
>crazy...

Not always. Unless the fileids are set to close-on-exec an exec call will
pass open file ids to a new image. This image does not know what files
are open (not even stdin,stdout,stderr are required even if they are
usually defaulted to open). It is ASSUMED that the new image expects the
open file ids that are passed.
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Jesse I Pollard, II
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