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From: billg@hpindda.HP.COM (Bill Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: socket limit in HP/UX
Message-ID: <4310050@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 89 22:47:47 GMT
References: <748@rwing.UUCP>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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>Can any of you networking guru's tell me if there is a limit to the number
>of simultaneous sockets available under HP/UX?  Say, something like
>"64 per process, up to 256 per system" or something like that.  

The key is that sockets are just flavors of files.  When you create a socket 
you use up a file descriptor.  When you run out of file descriptors you
cannot create more sockets.  So the question is: how may file descriptors
are available to a process?

Bill (I don't know the answer but I know the right question) Gilbert