Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:49:19PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:34:18AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
>
> > You can't, in general, close *all* open file descriptors. OPEN_MAX
> > may not exist (and I would guess that it doesn't on the HURD). It's
> > completely reasonable for a daemon to that doesn't open any extras to
> > assume that only stdin, stdout, and stderr are open.
>
> If OPEN_MAX is undefined you could always use INT_MAX :-) .
iirc, there has been a problem with a program closing all descriptors
before, because they were used by libc (?) for something. So no, you
shouldn't use INT_MAX either :)
--
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
Reply to: