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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:25:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Edward Deitz <endeitz AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Limit on number of open files
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Thanks very much for your help.  Using the snapshot
version of the .dll fixed the problem.

You'll have to trust me that I did search the archives
before posting. . .I'm just not very good at it
apparently.

Ed.

--- Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Brian Ford
> Senior Realtime Software Engineer
> VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
> FlightSafety International
> Phone: 314-551-8460
> Fax:   314-551-8444



	
		
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