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Date:      Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:21:27 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Errno man page
Message-ID:  <17115.55047.913858.988219@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050717223729.GD1291@gothmog.gr>
References:  <20050718000738.F69475@geri.cc.fer.hr> <20050717223729.GD1291@gothmog.gr>

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<<On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 01:37:29 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> I think that instead of trying to guess a value that would be correct for
> many filesystems, but obviously wrong for others, we should just remove the
> explicit size.

But tell people how to use pathconf(3)/getconf(1) to find out what it
is.

>> - for EMFILE - is the limit on open files really 64 per process?

> Not necessarily.  It's what kern.maxfilesperproc says.  On my CURRENT
> system that is a little lower than kern.maxfiles:

This, too, should probably be documented under the portable
interface(s) in addition to the FreeBSD-private one.

-GAWollman




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