Re: kern/59081: Add close_range() system call

[Ricardo Branco <rbranco%suse.de@localhost>]

closefrom doesn't handle CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC.

I see close_range being used by container projects.


Best,

Ricardo

On 3/26/25 4:46 PM, Jörg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On 3/25/25 10:45 PM, David H. Gutteridge via gnats wrote:
> > The following reply was made to PR kern/59081; it has been noted by 
> > GNATS.
> >
> > From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
> > To: Gnats Bugs <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> > Cc:
> > Subject: Re: kern/59081: Add close_range() system call
> > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:41:35 -0400
> >
> >   It would be nice to have this available natively, for sure. I was 
> > asked
> >   by an upstream project why NetBSD didn't have this.
>
> I've never seen a use case that closefrom(3) doesn't cover.
>
> Joerg