freebsd-skq/lib/libc/sys/closefrom.2
Kyle Evans 472ced39ef Implement a close_range(2) syscall
close_range(min, max, flags) allows for a range of descriptors to be
closed. The Python folk have indicated that they would much prefer this
interface to closefrom(2), as the case may be that they/someone have special
fds dup'd to higher in the range and they can't necessarily closefrom(min)
because they don't want to hit the upper range, but relocating them to lower
isn't necessarily feasible.

sys_closefrom has been rewritten to use kern_close_range() using ~0U to
indicate closing to the end of the range. This was chosen rather than
requiring callers of kern_close_range() to hold FILEDESC_SLOCK across the
call to kern_close_range for simplicity.

The flags argument of close_range(2) is currently unused, so any flags set
is currently EINVAL. It was added to the interface in Linux so that future
flags could be added for, e.g., "halt on first error" and things of this
nature.

This patch is based on a syscall of the same design that is expected to be
merged into Linux.

Reviewed by:	kib, markj, vangyzen (all slightly earlier revisions)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627
2020-04-12 21:23:19 +00:00

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.Dd April 12, 2020
.Dt CLOSEFROM 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm closefrom ,
.Nm close_range
.Nd delete open file descriptors
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In unistd.h
.Ft void
.Fn closefrom "int lowfd"
.Ft int
.Fn close_range "u_int lowfd" "u_int highfd" "int flags"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn closefrom
system call deletes all open file descriptors greater than or equal to
.Fa lowfd
from the per-process object reference table.
Any errors encountered while closing file descriptors are ignored.
.Pp
The
.Fn close_range
system call deletes all open file descriptors between
.Fa lowfd
and
.Fa highfd
inclusive, clamped to the range of open file descriptors.
Any errors encountered while closing file descriptors are ignored.
There are currently no defined
.Fa flags .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion,
.Fn close_range
returns a value
of 0.
Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and the global variable
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn close_range
system call
will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The
.Fa highfd
argument is lower than the
.Fa lowfd
argument.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
An invalid flag was set.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr close 2
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn closefrom
function first appeared in
.Fx 8.0 .