GETDTABLESIZE

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)
Updated: 22 July 1993
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NAME

getdtablesize - get descriptor table size  

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int getdtablesize(void);  

DESCRIPTION

getdtablesize returns the maximum number of files a process can have open.  

NOTES

getdtablesize is implemented as a library function in DLL 4.4.1. This function returns OPEN_MAX (set to 256 in Linux 0.99.11) if OPEN_MAX was defined when the library was compiled. Otherwise, -1 is returned, and errno is set to ENOSYS.  

SEE ALSO

close(2), dup(2), open(2)


 

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