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In article <Pine.BSF.3.95.970620104528.17884E-100000@alive.znep.com>,
Marc Slemko  <marcs@znep.com> wrote:
> 
> Grr.  I thought this had been fixed in FreeBSD, but I guess not.
> The problem here is that the FILE structure uses only a short for
> _file, which means it can only handle 255 fds.

Er ... that's a mighty strange "short" you've got there, if it can only
hold a number up to 255.  Maybe you should upgrade to a 32-bit machine. :-)
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
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