Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 3 Jan 1997 00:33:11 -0000 | From | rdm@tad ... | Subject | Re: How to increat [sic.] max open files? |
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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
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