Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:12:12 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: trig@netlink.co.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max first parameter of a Select call? Message-ID: <199606191412.OAA20866@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <m0uW4t2-000I5NC@netlink.co.uk> (trig@netlink.co.uk)
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I wrote:-
> In any case, the number of file descriptors a process can have open is
> limited by OPEN_MAX, which is 64 on FreeBSD:-
Sorry folks, that was complete Horlicks:-
$ cat temp.c
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
main() {
int i = 1;
for (;;) {
if (dup(0) < 0) {
printf("dup failed with i = %d\n", i);
perror("dup");
break;
}
i++;
}
return 0;
}
$ gcc temp.c
$ ulimit -n
64
$ ./a.out
dup failed with i = 61
dup: Too many open files
$ ulimit -n unlimited
$ ulimit -n
360
$ ./a.out
dup failed with i = 357
dup: Too many open files
$
Next time, I'll try to look at the shell limits *before* posting 8-(
--
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
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