Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!rvdp From: rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: The "getdtablesize" command Message-ID: <8532@star.cs.vu.nl> Date: 18 Dec 90 22:47:16 GMT References: <28687@mimsy.umd.edu> Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Lines: 17 preetham@ra.src.umd.edu (Preetham Gopalaswamy) writes: =I am trying to compile a software package that was unfortunately not written =for SysV although they claim that it is. The computer being used is an HP800 =running HPUX 3.1. One of the problems that I am facing is finding a SysV =equivalent for the command "getdtablesize" which is used (so the SUN man =pages say) to "get the descriptor table size". What can I use instead of =this command since it does not exist on the HPs. =Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Select and its functions are BSD features. Not all SVR3 machines include all the select additional functions. Maybe it is in HP's libbsd.a? -- Ronald van der Pol