Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 01:14:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: OPEN_MAX => which #define counts? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.960927010912.7256A-100000@scooter.quickweb.com>
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Hi, I was poking around /usr/src/sys wondering about OPEN_MAX ... I'm just learning about file descriptors and such and I figured out that OPEN_MAX determines the max num. of files a process can open. My question is that which #define actually sets the limit: ./conf/options:OPEN_MAX opt_rlimit.h ---> which contains nothing.. ./i386/conf/LINT:options OPEN_MAX=128 ./sys/syslimits.h:#define OPEN_MAX 64 The other question I have is how OPEN_MAX relates to the max. number of file secriptors the System can have open at a time. TIA for any insight, -Mark ------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | C-Soft www.quickweb.com | ------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch
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