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Date:	Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:31:29 -0400
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Annie W. wrote:
> can someone point me on how to increase open file limit?
> Im stuck to 3200 on ulimit -n
> I already went thru my cygwin files and downloaded cygwin source code.
> I would appreciate the advice on how to change this limit?
> 
> I have already increased open file limits on redhat and other linux
> systems without any problems. 
> 
> Thank you
> Annie

I've no idea what sets ulimit's limits.  But that won't stop me from
suggesting some possibilities.  :-)

- ulimit is a bash builtin, so you might want to look at bash's code.
If bash is the problem, you might run under ash or another shell, though
not launched from bash.

- One possibility is that Windows limits the numbers of open files.
Have you looked into that?

Good luck.

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