Paul Eggert 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 > fix 'tar' so that it doesn't need a file descriptor for each level of > the directory hierarchy.
For the record, here are some more numbers (output of "getconf OPEN_MAX"): openBSD 4.7 128 sunos 5.11 256 darwin 9.8.0 256 freeBSD 8.0 11095 linux 2.6.36 1024
