Re: How can a process easily get a list of all it's open fd?

[Alex Riesen]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:26:38PM -0700, Mike Touloumtzis wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:08:42PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > tricky. You can use /proc/<getpid>/fd, and close all
> > handles listed here, but this has some caveats:
> > it's _very_ slow if you have many open files.
> > it's not portable.
> > it's not safe if you have a thread/signal handler running.
> > 
> > i never heard of a right way to do this.
> > 
> > -alex
> > 
> > int close_all_fd()
> > {
> >     char fdpath[PATH_MAX];
> >     DIR * dp;
> >     struct dirent * de;
> >     int fd;
> > 
> >     sprintf(fdpath, "/proc/%d/fd", getpid());
> >     dp = opendir(fdpath);
> 
> This can just be:
> 
> 	dp = opendir("/proc/self/fd/");
> 
> then you don't need fdpath.

Oh, indeed.

> You can use sigprocmask() if you're worried about signals coming
> in during this operation.

I, personally, strongly dislike this option.
You never know which signals are to be blocked.

Besides, it's still not portable and not safe agains threads.

-alex