what's the purpose of fcntl with parameter F_DUPFD
- by Daniel
I traced an oracle process, and find it first open a file /etc/netconfig as file handle 11, and then duplicate it as 256 by calling fcntl with parameter F_DUPFD, and then close the original file handle 11. Later it read using file handle 256. So what's the point to duplicate the file handle? Why not just work on the original file handle?
12931: 0.0006 open("/etc/netconfig", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 11
12931: 0.0002 fcntl(11, F_DUPFD, 0x00000100) = 256
12931: 0.0001 close(11) = 0
12931: 0.0002 read(256, " # p r a g m a i d e n".., 1024) = 1024
12931: 0.0003 read(256, " t s t p i _ c".., 1024) = 215
12931: 0.0002 read(256, 0x106957054, 1024) = 0
12931: 0.0001 lseek(256, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0
12931: 0.0002 read(256, " # p r a g m a i d e n".., 1024) = 1024
12931: 0.0003 read(256, " t s t p i _ c".., 1024) = 215
12931: 0.0003 read(256, 0x106957054, 1024) = 0
12931: 0.0001 close(256) = 0
