Re: kern/44950: fcntl(F_MAXFD) returns bogus values

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/44950; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, Julio Merino <jmmv%julipedia.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: kern/44950: fcntl(F_MAXFD) returns bogus values
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 09:58:18 +0200

 On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:55:08AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
 >              for (i = 0; i < 1024; i++)
 >                      (void)close(i);
 > 
 >              _exit(fcntl(0, F_MAXFD));
 
 You have done close(0) and now can't fcntl(0, ...). We could make an exception
 for F_MAXFD in the kernel (but check the standard carefully first).
 
 Martin