Re: closefd: closes a file of any process

[Werner Almesberger]

[e-mail] wrote:
> I hope what you say here doesn't apply with to my module that just emulates
> sys_close() for the non-current process 

Well, it has the same restrictions: if the current process can't close
the file for some reason, no other process should be able to. If you can
close it (i.e. destroy the association between the process and the
underlying object) but something keeps the lower layers still busy, they
will remain busy nonetheless.

I'm not saying that a 3rd party close is a priori useless, but the range
of useful applications may be quite narrow. And, in particular, it
doesn't necessarily solve the problem of unkillable processes and the
resources they keep busy.

- Werner

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