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From: ianhogg@cs.umn.edu (Ian J. Hogg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: what's the file descriptor table size?
Keywords: file descriptor table size help what
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.020159.4994@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 02:01:59 GMT
References: <1990Dec6.151410@dali.gatech.edu>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - CSCI Dept.
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In article <1990Dec6.151410@dali.gatech.edu> mike@penguin.gatech.edu (Mike Gourlay) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>	Anybody know what the file descriptor table size is on an HP 9000 series 370
>running HPUX 7.0?  There should be a function calles getdtablesize,
>which does not
>exit on my machine.  I looked through /usr/include, and I didn't find
>anything with
>grep that looked like the right thing, though it should be in there
>somewhere.
>
>	Thanks,
>	Mike Gourlay
>	mike@penguin.gatech.edu

Write your our getdtablesize (that's what I did) that calls sysconf.  Sysconf
has a parameter that returns what you want.  I'd tell you exactly what it is but I'm not reading this from work.