Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Historic UNIX has a limit of 20 open files. SunOS-4.0 had a default limit of 64. Then there was a long time with a limit of 256 because the fd in stdio was a char. In any case, typical filesystem have no limitation on directory nesting but there is still a limit for open fd's. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
