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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there a limit to create sockets on UNIX??
Message-ID: <3814@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 3 Aug 90 18:50:51 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>While true that most UNIX systems are limited by static resource limits, not 
>all are.  

No shit, that's why I said "some systems".  Since he was seeing EMFILE,
he was obviously working on a system limited by a static limit on the
number of file descriptors that any one process can open.

>Known counterexample: AIX 3.1 for the RS/6000 (limit = 2000).

That sounds like a static limit to me, albeit a large one.

>Possible counterexamples: System V Release 4

No, S5R4 works the same way SunOS 4.1 does.