On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:02 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. open("/proc/self/fd") can fail with ENOMEM. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html