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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