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o11c on June 7, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Too Many Open Files

There's no need to actually do all the opening if you control the code.

You can do anything with `fcntl(F_DUPFD{,_CLOEXEC})` and `fdopen`.

reisse on June 7, 2025 [–]

If we had control of library code, we'd just get rid of select()...

Though we did use the dup trick in another case!

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