> >On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:41:50 -0600 Nicolas Williams wrote: >> Is ksh93's OPEN_MAX (max open fildes) really 256 on Solaris? > >ksh builtin getconf(1) winds its way down to sysconf(SC_OPEN_MAX) >which is is sysconf(5) verified by > getconf -t | grep OPEN_MAX >you can do this directly from the ksh builtin > getconf 'SC(5)' >on my sol10.sun4 I get 256 >same value (just as a double check) for > ulimit -n >so I believe the question is > >Is Solaris's OPEN_MAX (max open fildes) really 256 on my machine?
It's the default soft limit. Casper