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- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 85 16:26:26 PST
- From: mordor!lll-crg!sun!guy (Guy Harris)
-
- > [ Seems to me only those critical binaries (/etc/init?)
- > that wanted a huge OPEN_MAX would need to be rebuilt. -Gwyn ]
-
- Nope. What about programs like shells which want to close every single open
- file descriptor? If OPEN_MAX were a compile-time constant, these programs
- would have to be recompiled if you just bought Keg-O-Data's new DBMS which
- requires 100 open file descriptors and reconfigured your kernel to up the
- max-file-descriptors-per-process limit.
-
- > I suggest deleting all of the constants, and instead specifying
- > a library routine...
-
- Yes, and *please* call the one for OPEN_MAX "getdtablesize", so 4.2 programs
- won't have to change.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 3, Number 13
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