Starting a daemon on a SVR3

[Robert Claeson]

In article <1991Jan03.132149.3565 at scuzzy.in-berlin.de> src at scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:

>yes [if you have posix stuff]:
>
>    for ( i = 0 ; i < sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) ; i++ )
>	close( i );

But is it really nessecary to close all files in order to create a daemon
under System V? I haven't done it, and yet everything seems to work as
it should.

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