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From: bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
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Subject: Re: FOPEN_MAX
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Date: 26 Sep 90 15:10:24 GMT
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In article <ROLAND.90Sep26033201@geech.ai.mit.edu> roland@ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath) writes:
>Is FOPEN_MAX supposed to include the standard streams stdin, stdout, and
>stderr, or not?  (i.e. Should FOPEN_MAX be the number of possible open
>descriptors, or that number minus three?)

"The value of FOPEN_MAX shall be at least eight, including the three
standard text streams."  (ANSI X3.159-1989, sec. 4.9.3, pp. 128, l. 2)

				--Blair
				  "Hi, Doug."