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- >From seismo!gatech!akgua!whuxlm!vilya!am Mon Nov 11 12:34:18 1985
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 85 11:40:54 est
- Status: O
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- John,
- I believe that both OPEN_MAX and CHILD_MAX are useful as constants
- available to the programmer to protect against running out of children
- or files. Use of them in a non-controlled way will, of course, require
- unnecessary re-compilations when system limits are changed. Let them be
- in the standard and caveat emptor.
- Maybe there should be separate limits.h files, eg hardlimits.h
- for things which will never ( :-) ) change on a given system, such as
- hardware limits (32-bit etc.) and a softlimits.h file which contains
- current limits which change when system parameters are updated etc. This
- will avoid many unnecessary recompilations when the program does not use
- the softlimits.
- Avi Malek (vilya!am @ATT-Bell Labs, Parsippany NJ)
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- Avi Malek @ATT Bell Labs Parsippany, NJ
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- Volume-Number: Volume 3, Number 14
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