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Subject: Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6
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On Wed, 30 May 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > So library routines *must not* open file descriptors in the normal space.
> > 
> > (The same is true of real applications doing the equivalent of
> > 
> > 	for (i = 0; i < NR_OPEN; i++)
> > 		close(i);
> 
> Quite buggy IMHO

Looking at it now, I'd agree (although I think I have that somewhere in my 
old code too). Consider though, that such code is contained also in 
reference books like Richard Stevens "UNIX Network Programming".



- Davide


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