Where did you saw the #define for OPEN_MAX? Olga
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:02:40PM -0500, Glenn Fowler wrote: >> 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 > > There's also a #define for OPEN_MAX; that led me astray. > >> so I believe the question is >> >> Is Solaris's OPEN_MAX (max open fildes) really 256 on my machine? > > Sortof. The soft limit is. > > Thanks, > > Nico > -- > _______________________________________________ > ksh93-integration-discuss mailing list > ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ksh93-integration-discuss > -- , _ _ , { \/`o;====- Olga Kryzhanovska -====;o`\/ } .----'-/`-/ olga.kryzhanovska at gmail.com \-`\-'----. `'-..-| / Solaris/BSD//C/C++ programmer \ |-..-'` /\/\ /\/\ `--` `--`
