On 09/07/2010 02:37 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > on NetBSD 5.0.2 it's just 128. While most > distribution tarballs fit easily within such a limitation, when you > use tar to perform backups, you might find such a low number to be a > serious limitation. Even 1024 seems far too low for a tool like tar.
Yeowch. What are those NetBSD guys _thinking_ (:-)? Anyway, I will try to fix 'tar' so that it doesn't need a file descriptor for each level of the directory hierarchy.
