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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Out of descriptors, out of luck?
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Date: 16 Apr 91 01:38:33 GMT
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>Please.  This is hardly a wizardly question.  Go RTFM on how to configure
>and relink your kernel.

TFM may say "sorry, you can't do that".  Different systems set that
table size in different ways; some require source to reconfigure.  Other
systems may have, say, a "soft" limit of 64 and a "hard" limit of 256,
in which case the user should check out GETRLIMIT(2) and see how to
raise the soft limit to the hard limit.  (If you have RLIMIT_NOFILE,
that's the limit to raise; otherwise, you may be stuck.)