Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] fdmap(2)

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On 10/23/17, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Binary fdmap looks... quite ugly to me. But close_all(from, to)
> syscall kindof makes sense to me... and is not that ugly.
>
> Given that openbsd has something similar... perhaps we can take that?

closefrom() can be implemented on top of fdmap().
fdmap as is is useful for other purposes.

> Except during startup, application should have good idea what fds it
> has open, so maybe that's enough?