How to close all files between fork and exec?

[Russ Allbery]

In comp.unix.programmer, Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>> "Donn" == Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:

>  Donn> Unfortunately it looks to me like no one has ever put
>  Donn> getdtablesize() in Python.

> does it have sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)?

BTW, in the pointless portability department, getrlimit returns more
accurate results than sysconf on some patched Linux kernels (INN therefore
tries getrlimit first).

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>