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- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 85 10:43:08 EST
- From: Dan Franklin <dan@BBN-PROPHET.ARPA>
-
- Mark Horton's message on ways of getting kernel-determined limits out
- of files implies, to me, that the only reasonable way to get such limits
- at runtime is through a kernel system call. It solves all of the problems
- Mark outlined at the cost of a few bytes of data space.
-
- It's not clear that we need to describe the implementation at such a low
- level, though. All we really need is to standardize the interface through
- which the information is maintained. The choice of using a file or a system
- call (in fact both might be appropriate, for different limits) is up to the
- implementation.
-
- (Mark's message also left me with the uneasy feeling that I might have missed
- an issue or two, as I don't remember seeing anything on "cc -E | sed" before.
- Have I?)
-
- [ No, you haven't. We've been having mailer problems associated with flaky
- nameservers here and elsewhere, plus BBN sometimes forgets how to talk to us,
- and the reverse. I'll send you the ones you've missed.
-
- Free trial offer, open to anyone: the Volume-Number line tacked onto the
- end is so you can check to see if there are any gaps in what you've received.
- Send me a list of ones you didn't get and I'll send them to you again. -mod ]
-
- Dan Franklin
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 3, Number 37
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-