On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:21:26AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> The question therefore is: is it worth just closing 1-255? Will that
> take significant time? Why not 1-127 or 1-63 or 1-511? Maybe this should
> be configurable at build time?
No, the way things are at the moment are the right thing. Closing file
descriptors that we didn't open are prone to break the environment as
it has happened for libnss-ldap and the Debian patched exim. Debian
has backed out the patch to un-break libnss-ldap.
Things are fine, don't change.
Greetings
Marc, correcting an earlier mistake
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