From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B63FBC69 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:59:35 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAAb46UbAXQInmWdsb2JhbACBV4w6AQECBwQGBwgW X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,255,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="2697930" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 14 Sep 2007 12:00:06 +0200 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l8E9xind000880 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:59:49 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAIP46UY+FFrD/2dsb2JhbACBVw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,255,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="16191059" Received: from vtab.com (HELO oden.vtab.com) ([62.20.90.195]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 14 Sep 2007 12:00:06 +0200 Received: from oden.vtab.com (oden.vtab.com [127.0.0.1]) by oden.vtab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0909626EEB3; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:00:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from virtutech.se (alfredo.hq.vtech [10.0.0.52]) by oden.vtab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC65A26EEAD; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:00:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from mattias@localhost) by virtutech.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) id l8EA04x12648; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:00:04 +0200 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:00:04 +0200 Message-Id: <200709141000.l8EA04x12648@virtutech.se> From: "=?utf-8?b?TWF0dGlhcyBFbmdkZWfDpQ==?= =?utf-8?b?cmQ=?=" To: dra-news@metastack.com Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-reply-to: <006b01c7f699$275fd6d0$017ca8c0@countertenor> (dra-news@metastack.com) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Closing all open file descriptors Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 References: <006b01c7f699$275fd6d0$017ca8c0@countertenor> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 46EA5B90.000 on concorde : j-chkmail score : X : 0/20 1 0.000 -> 1 X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 46EA5B90.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; mattias:01 mattias:01 descriptors:01 readdir:01 unix:01 unix:01 caml-list:01 descr:02 linux:07 irrelevant:07 probably:07 probably:07 approach:08 solaris:08 file:11 >Probably irrelevant here, but this approach wouldn't work under Windows >(Unix.file_descr is the Win32 file handle at that point which is often >larger than 1024). More relevantly, Unix can be reconfigured to allow for >more than 1024 open files. I think platform-dependent code is required here. The common way of doing this under Linux (and Solaris, probably) is to readdir /proc/PID/fd/. Windows is of course very different.