Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jim Nance <> | Subject | Re: How to increat [sic.] max open files? (fwd) | Date | Fri, 3 Jan 1997 09:36:27 -0500 (EST) |
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Forwarded message: > From: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu > > 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
Consider an X server. You have 1 socket for each application that is attached to it.
In any event I started rewritting sys_select() last night so that it does not need to know how large fd_set is, and so it does not allocate the buffers on the stack.
Jim
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