Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: N8TM AT aol DOT com Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 09:03:17 EDT Subject: Re: Open File Problems - WIERD!!! To: paul AT grserv DOT med DOT jhmi DOT edu, ianc AT kiwiplan DOT co DOT nz CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 15 In a message dated 5/10/99 4:57:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time, paul AT grserv DOT med DOT jhmi DOT edu writes: > Could it be the windows-imposed limit on # of open files? I.e., in your > config.sys (assuming you're running win9x - dunno how it works in NT), try > setting FILES=60 (or whatever number). > > - Paul There appears to be a problem, as the original poster stated, which is the same on various egcs implementations (apparently g77 as well as gcc), as well as additional problems in this area specific to egcs running on W9x. In neither situation is there a warning from the OS or run-time. Tim tprince AT computer DOT org -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com