From: dmay AT tvi DOT cc DOT nm DOT us ("David May") Subject: Re: More than 64 files open? 25 Nov 1996 10:44:41 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <23F37331F4D.cygnus.gnu-win32@tvi_mail.tvi.cc.nm.us> Original-To: Mike McGann Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:20:45 -0500 (EST) > From: Mike McGann > To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > Subject: More than 64 files open? > > Hello Everyone! > > We are currently porting a database system to Windows 95 and have been > using the cygnus development with much success. On problem that we have > come across is that there seems to be a limit to the number of files that > can be open at one time. Since this is a database, we need to have many > files open while the program is running. I wrote a quick little program to > see how many files I could have open at one time and it came out to be 64. > > I'm assuming that there must be a way to allow a process to open more, but > I haven't been able to find a solution. I'm not sure if this is an issue > with Windows, or even maybe with the cygnus code. If anyone has a > soultion, or ideas, it would be a great help to our project. Thanks. > > - Mike McGann Try the Windows API function SetHandleCount() in your application. David May Albuquerque TVI - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".