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file descriptor diet
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Bruno Haible |
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file descriptor diet |
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Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:47:17 +0200 |
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Hi Paul,
> ... as part of my campaign to put GNU tar on a file descriptor diet ...
Can you please say a few words about what it means, and what is the motivation?
File descriptors are a central concept in POSIX. Is something wrong with it?
To which class of programs does this diet apply? To all programs? Or only
to those that spawn subprocesses? Or only to those that use fork() without
exec()?
Bruno