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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
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- From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
- Subject: Re: Does dlopen consume a fd?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.192957.3039@rwwa.COM>
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- Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
- References: <1992Dec23.143819.27180@rwwa.COM> <16068@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Dec23.203539.2829@super.org>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:29:57 GMT
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- Thanks all for the info. A person at sun also confirmed that dlopen *doesn't*
- consume a fd:
-
- > No, it doesn't. This is possible because mmap'ed files stay mapped, even
- > after the fd you used to open the file with originally is closed.
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