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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:03:42 -0500 (CDT)
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Subject: Re: Limit on number of open files
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Edward Deitz wrote:

> So I tested with the following code:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> int
> main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>   int i;
>   for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
>     {
>       FILE *f = fopen("/dev/null", "r");
>       if (!f)
> 	break;
>       printf("%d\n", i);
>     }
>   exit(0);
> }
>
> Results:
>
> 0
> 1
> ...
> 132
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> So the limit appears to be 133 files.  And it appears
> to have no relation to the ulimit command (which is
> probably intentional, I'm not sure if ulimit is
> supposed to work in Cygwin).
>
> Any ideas, anyone?

Please search the archives before posting.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00990.html

and later

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01008.html

also related

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00988.html

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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
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FlightSafety International
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