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DateFri, 3 Jan 1997 08:09:14 -0500 (EST)
From"Richard B. Johnson" <>
SubjectRe: How to increat [sic.] max open files?
On 3 Jan 1997 rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu wrote:

> Richard B. Johnson:
> > I think that a task, process, program, etc., that needs more than 100
> > file handles is improperly written. Keeping that many files open at any
> > one time will cause file destruction if the system crashes.
> 
> Only if the file handles refer to files.
> 
> [Consider sockets, pipes, etc.  For example: qmail-send's handling of
> qmail-remote, see
>  ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/qmail-0.95.tar.gz.]
> 
> -- 
> Raul
> 
Do you really think that a single task can handle 100 sockets open to
100 clients in an efficient manner?

Now, I don't KNOW what the number is. But I do KNOW that the number is
not "N"!  Having some kind of enforced limit causes one to design code
rather than just winging it.



Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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