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From: jhc@m2jhc.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there a limit to create sockets on UNIX??
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Date: 26 Jul 90 17:36:31 GMT
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In article <2913@awdprime.UUCP> kent@opus.austin.ibm.com (Kent Malave') writes:
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>	Sounds like a filesystem limitation.

I agree, although I would say that it is not a filesystem limitation
but a limit on the number of files that may be concurrently open for a
single process.

>	You might try INET family sockets!

Internet domain sockets still take a file descriptor in the process
even though no file is created on the filesystem.

--Jim