Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:01:28 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Richard Krehbiel <rich AT kastle DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP, WATT32: __FSEXT_alloc_fd() failed
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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Richard Krehbiel wrote:

> The problem I'm hitting now is that I'm getting the error message noted
> in the subject line at the point where watt32's socket.c would be
> allocating file descriptor 20.  Huh?  I've been unable to find the
> source of this limitation.

Are you using DJGPP v2.02?

> socket.c calls __FSEXT_alloc_fd, which
> itself just dups an open handle to the DOS NULL device, and otherwise
> appears not to impose any 20-handle limit

This is true for DJGPP v2.02 and later.

> Well, I already had FILES=30, so I suspected this was not the problem,
> but just in case, I increased it to FILES=200.  There was no change.

Please step with a debugger into the related functions (you will need
to download their sources and compile them with -g), and post here
what did you find out.  I have test programs hich prove to me that
FSEXT can indeed allocate up to 249 handles, which is the maximum.