Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:39:41 -0500 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Open file limit Message-ID: <20000319183941.A16424@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <200003190058.LAA17702@mustang.sdc.com.au> <20000319152332.A10069@cygnus.com> <002301bf91fb$26522640$a8a11dcb@ihug.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <002301bf91fb$26522640$a8a11dcb@ihug.co.nz>; from ross.s@ihug.co.nz on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:30:44AM +1200 On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:30:44AM +1200, Ross Smith wrote: >From: "Chris Faylor" >> When I run it, I see numbers up to 99. That means that there is no >> 20 open file limit, AFAICT. Maybe this is just in recent snapshots. > >It's an NT vs 95/98 issue. The limit is 20 on Win95/98; there's no limit >on NT/2K (or if there is, it's very high, well over 1000). I don't know >if there's any way to change the limit on 95/98 (I have a vague >recollection of there being something you can put in AUTOEXEC.BAT to >change the limit, but I can't remember the details). You change config.sys: FILES=xx where xx is the number of opened handles that you need. This is hardly a cygwin limitation, though. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com