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Re: XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)


On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:45:22PM -0700, Earle F. Philhower III wrote:
>Howdy Christopher, Igor, and Harold...
>
>...
>>Two small notes here:
>>1) You can actually call setenv("DISPLAY", value) inside the XWin process,
>>which will be inherited by XWin's children.
>...
>>On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:06:55PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>>The for loop that you have is the way I have seen it done before.
>>Me too.  However, if you can find an API specification for something
>>which does something similar in the Single Unix Specification, I'd be
>>...>>  getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rl);
>>>>  for (i = STDERR_FILENO+1; i < rl.rlim_max; i++)
>>>>       (void) close(i);
>>>>but that seems wasteful to iterate over rlim_max...
>(make that rlim_cur, closing 4 billion descriptors takes too long...)
>
>I'm attaching another diff (against test95 plain), be sure to so a
>"make Makefiles" and "make depend" before "make XWin.exe".
>
>It does all the prior stuff and
>a) Closes all fds on the fork()'d process

It *may* be helpful to call setsid() at this point, after you've closed
the file descriptors.

cgf


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