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From: mike_s@EBay.Sun.COM (Mike "The Claw" Sullivan)
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Subject: Re: Out of descriptors, out of luck?
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Date: 20 Apr 91 20:05:01 GMT
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In <63777@bbn.BBN.COM> fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge) writes:

>If the man page for setrlimit() says that it supports
>RLIMIT_NOFILE, then you can up the limit for the number of open files. Sun
>O/S >=4.0 and HP-UX >=8.0 are examples of two operating systems which support
>this facility.  

Slight correction. I believe that RLIMIT_NOFILE first appeared in SunOS 4.1,
not 4.0.

	Mike
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