close-on-exec alternatives (was: Why kernel kills processes that run out of memory instead of just failing memory allocation system calls?)

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 08:58:50PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> It is still very interesting, because I currently have a similar problem
> and wasn't aware of getdtablesize();

Note that many (other) systems provide a much simpler and efficient
function for the above, closefrom(3).

Joerg