Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Apr 06 2012 - 17:02:35 EST


On 04/06/2012 01:16 PM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
> closefrom(3) written via nextfd(2) loop is reliable and doesn't fail.
> closefrom(3) written via /proc/self/fd is reliable and can fail (including ENOMEM).
> closefrom(3) written via close(fd++) is unreliable.
>

I call shenanigans on this. There is no reason to ENOMEM on the second
written using the fdwalk() implementation I already posted, for example.

-hpa


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