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From: Markus E L <ls-ocaml-2006@m-e-leypold.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Closing all open file descriptors
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:29:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ipbqc49f3d.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1189858565.46ebcd05317b8@webmail.in-berlin.de> (Oliver Bandel's message of "Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:16:05 +0200")


Oliver Bandel wrote:

> Zitat von Mattias Engdegå   rd <mattias@virtutech.se>:
>
>> >If you have all your open descriptors in a list,
>> >you can close them after a fork.
>>
>> That approach does not compose well --- descriptors opened by
>> a library will be excluded.
> [...]
>
> Oh, I have not seen this last sentence.
>
> Well, wouldn't the library offer possibilities
> to close those files?
>
> Can you give an example on where you see problems?

GTK and the X11 library without doubt open a plethora of file
descriptors. If now you fork() in a gtk event handler -- can you tell
me what happens to those file descriptors? 

Regards -- Markus


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-15 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-13 22:56 Dave Benjamin
2007-09-14  1:04 ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-14  6:35   ` Dave Benjamin
2007-09-14  6:48     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-14  7:32       ` Dave Benjamin
2007-09-14  6:33 ` David Allsopp
2007-09-14  6:41   ` Dave Benjamin
2007-09-14 10:54     ` Andre Nathan
2007-09-14 10:00   ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-09-14 20:31     ` Dave Benjamin
2007-09-14 21:52       ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-14 22:12         ` Markus E L
2007-09-15  9:15           ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-15  9:26             ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-15 10:43               ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-15 11:36                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-09-15 11:57                   ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-15 14:27                     ` Markus E L
2007-09-15 12:16                   ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-15 14:29                     ` Markus E L [this message]
2007-09-15 18:04                       ` skaller
2007-09-15 14:17                   ` Markus E L
2007-09-15 14:16                 ` Markus E L
2007-09-15 15:58                   ` Eric Cooper
2007-09-15 16:17                     ` Markus E L
2007-09-15 18:33                       ` skaller
2007-09-15 17:44                   ` skaller
2007-09-14 10:10 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-09-14 11:56 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-17 11:00 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen

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