Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

Felix von Leitner (leitner@convergence.de)
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:20:23 +0100

Thus spake Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk):
> You would need to use a new open() flag: O_ANYFD.
> The requirement comes from this like this:

> close (0);
> close (1);
> close (2);
> open ("/dev/console", O_RDWR);
> dup ();
> dup ();

So it's not actually part of POSIX, it's just to get around fixing
legacy code? ;-)

Felix
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