From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: available file descriptors
12 Sep 1998 23:52:43 GMT
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In article <199809120142 DOT SAA07585 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT www DOT aeinc DOT com>,
A. Phillip Smith <asmith AT www DOT aeinc DOT com> wrote:
>
>Unfortunately, the Cygnus mail archive searching is broken. This 
>question has probably been asked before. Is there an API to allow
>extension of the resource limit for available file descriptors
>returned by getdtablesize() ? Presumably, setrlimit() works, but
>what are the resource parameter arguments for cygwin32 ?

There should be no fixed limit on fds in recent versions of cygwin,
thanks to Sergey.  Try using a recent coolview release:

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