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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Tom Duff <td@pixar.com>
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] AFS-client for Plan9 - ?
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:15:13 -0500
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Tom Duff wrote:

> On Nov 14,  5:41pm, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Tom Duff wrote:
> > > UNIX applications can't exit without issuing the
> > > close system call.  The exit system call internally calls out
> > > to close for each open file.
> >
> > Not bloody likely. _Many_ applications exit without calling close(), so
> > such system would die horribly under the leaks.
> 
> No.
> Read what I said.

Erm... Ditto.

> The exit system call closes all open files.

Precisely. And any kernel that will try _not_ to do that will die under the
leaks produced by the $BIGNUM of applications expecting it do act as any
sane UNIX should. Thus "not bloody likely" - any attempt to change the
behaviour in that area is pretty much doomed.