Re: NR_OPEN vs OPEN_MAX vs RLIMIT_NOFILE, and a glibc bug?

David (david+nospam@killerlabs.com)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:08:31 -0800


On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 01:43:39 Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> writes:
> Yes, but apart from csh and some daemons, who needs to do a blanket close
> anyway?

well, a good lot of userland programs and daemons run this heavy close. the most used one that comes to mind is sendmail....on a busy site, that's a pretty penny spent to accomplish it.

-d

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