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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 10:42:18 -0500
Subject: Re: fork/exec & close file descriptors
From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
>
> The only problem is that you don't know how high you need to go in
> general.

Sure, but I didn't know anyway, so no matter what upper bound I choose
(or what function I choose/implement), it's just going to be a guess.
os.closerange just codifies the straightforward procedure.

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