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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi AT inspirepharm DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) limit
Date:	Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:03:51 +1000
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I think it's newlib that provides sysconf....

I'll see if I have time this weekend to dig into where the 32 is coming
from. 8192 /16384 sound good for the value returned?

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi AT inspirepharm DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 9:56 AM
Subject: sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) limit


>
> According to private communication with Chris, Cygwin has no fd limit.
>
> However, we have a sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) issue for Cygwin/XFree86:
>
> why sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) only returns 32 then. XFree86 returns errors
once
> max limit is hit.  One way to over come this is to hack the
connections.c in
> Xfree86, However, shouldn't
> this be bumped up in the Cygwin rather than making changes in source
code
> outside of
> it. Maybe other people will come across the same problem in other
> applications.
>
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