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According to Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] on 10/13/2006 2:31 PM:
> Annie W. wrote:
>> can someone point me on how to increase open file limit?
>> Im stuck to 3200 on ulimit -n

You can't :(

At least, not without patching cygwin (and that is supposing that windows
even provides the hooks to make it possible).  Bash's ulimit on cygwin is
pretty much read-only.

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