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Re: [MiNT] 1024 file handles now supported !!
On 29/12/2013 11:59, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
But is it really necessary to have all possible fds in /dev/fd, wouldn't
it be better to only list the used (i.e. opened) ones?
This was always wrong IMHO.
Indeed, that's a nonsense.
Things are different on Linux. /dev/fd is a symlink to /proc/self/fd,
then again this one contains symlinks to other stuff.
But in all cases, those pseudo-files seem to belong to opened handles.
I wonder how it looks on BSD-like systems.
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Vincent Rivière