_cleanup() vs Linux fcloseall()

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:54, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> It seems that some 3rd party code, pmake in particular, rely on
> the implementation exporting _cleanup() to close all open file
> descriptors.  Linux supplies fcloseall() and does not export
> _cleanup().
> 
> In the initial cut of symbol versioning for libc, I did not
> export _cleanup().  This breaks pmake, and perhaps some other
> 3rd party applications.  Do we want to continue to export this
> interface, or should we provide an equivalent of Linux'
> fcloseall()?

I would vote for fcloseall() personally.

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