On 09/07/2010 03:30 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
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
Cygwin 1.7.7 320
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