bind9 doesn't close extra fds

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 09:13:51 (-0400), Rudolph T Maceyko wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: bind9 doesn't close extra fds 
>
> 
> --On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 18:25:41 +0000 Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> >> > bind8 loops for over a minute on modern hardware for which
> >> > _SC_OPEN_MAX is often 16777216.
> 
> > we could keep closing until fd>_SC_OPEN_MAX or the number of failed
> > closes due to EBADF exceeded some threshold (42 being my favourite.)
> 
> This situation doesn't appeal to me very much...  Either close them 
> all, or close none.  Who's to say that the offending filedescriptors 
> are "low" ones?

I would say to only close 0, 1, and 2 on systems without a proper
daemon(3) function, and otherwise let it do what the system implementers
fell is "correct" (and to make exceptions only for those systems where
daemon(3) is found to be borken).

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