On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Andres Kroonmaa wrote: > Hey, watch your words, i'm Solaris shop ;)
I am free to express my opinion. Any my firm opinion in this matter is that the Solaris 32 bit STDIO subsystem limited to fd < 256 is just crap and seriously crippling the Solaris system for absolutely no reason. > When I first encountered this issue, I was told by Sun tech with sad > mode that yeah, sux, but thats invented looong ago that FILE has 8bits > for FD, and that they are forced to drag this along all the way for > backward compatibility. He also began shining suggesting 64-bit api. > Considering binary backward compatibility as crippledness is something > we owe to linux. This is not even about binary backward compability. They could easily have solved the problem in binary backward compatible ways the day SunOS started to support more than 256 filedescriptors per process, only requiring certain broken applications and libraries to be recompiled to be able to use more than 256 filedescriptors. Using binary compability as an excuse for not doing anything about such silly thing is intentional crippling of the system in my view. Using binary compability as an excuse why keeping the default ulimit at 256 is perfectly fine, but not as an excuse why the source level API could not be updated. Regards Henrik
