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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: How to divorce a process from the controlling tty (was syslogd.c)
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Date: 13 Jun 90 21:06:47 GMT
References: <1990Jun8.070904.7466@athena.mit.edu> <36447@sequent.UUCP> <11388@pixar.UUCP> <JTKOHL.90Jun11153217@lycus.MIT.EDU>
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In article <JTKOHL.90Jun11153217@lycus.MIT.EDU> jtkohl@MIT.EDU (John T Kohl) writes:
>Modern Unixes have a call to tell you the # of file descriptors:
>	count = getdtablesize();

Actually, in *modern* Unixes it's done with sysconf().