From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-09-15T10:36:38+09:00
Subject: Re: closing all open file descriptors

> all i can think now is
> 
>    3.upto(65536){|fd| IO::new(fd).close rescue nil}
> 
> which is incredibly expensive!

That's how it's usually done in C, though often only to 256.

If it's inefficient, a File.close_all(from) method might be nice as a
C extension.

Ari