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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: File descriptors open info
Message-ID: <6405@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 2 Mar 91 20:01:43 GMT
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>Why go to all this trouble when there is a system call to do it (at
>least in BSD...

Because there *isn't* such a call in BSD.  There's no "getdtablemax()"
in 4.3-reno or previous releases.

Maybe you have some Mutant BSD From Hell with "getdtablemax()", but if
so, your system isn't representative....