Re: [Caml-list] Closing all open file descriptors

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Am Donnerstag, den 13.09.2007, 17:56 -0500 schrieb Dave Benjamin:
> I'm writing a daemon and I would like to be able to close all open file 
> descriptors. As far as I can tell, there is no way to determine the 
> maximum number of file descriptors available, and neither is there a way 
> to get a file descriptor from an integer. The best I've come up with is 
> the following:
> 
>    for fd = 0 to 1024 do
>      try Unix.close (Obj.magic fd : Unix.file_descr)
>      with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ()
>    done;
> 
> Is there a better way?

Not really. Unix wants it this way.

ocamlnet's netsys library has functions to deal with that:
Netsys.file_descr_of_int and Netsys.sysconf_open_max. Look here for the
code:

https://godirepo.camlcity.org/wwwsvn/trunk/code/src/netsys/?root=lib-ocamlnet2

This does not work under Win32, of course, but I bet this wasn't part of
your question. The Netsys functions fail in this case.

Gerd
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