Re: epoll and fork()

[Mihai RUSU]

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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> The child's fds are separate, though. The parent can close
> its fds without affecting the child's and the child can close
> its fds without affecting the parent. 

They are not separate. It just that when using close you decrement the 
"reference" count to the "real" fd struct (like done on FS inodes). When 
reaches 0 its closed. So still as I said, fds are shared ;)

I havent check kernel sources, I just say that the fact the you can and 
need to close() a shared fd on each sharing process doesnt mean the 
sockets are independent.

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