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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: Unit number limit?
Message-ID: <994@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 21:10:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: ttrdc.994
Posted: Fri Jun 20 21:10:34 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Jun-86 13:16:53 EDT
References: <105@tekgen.UUCP> <8300002@ztivax.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Computer Systems Division, Skokie, IL
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In article <8300002@ztivax.UUCP>, david@ztivax.UUCP writes:
>Ooops!  I just checked the sources, and fopen() DOES still use
>descriptors (it actually calls open()), so you can still only open 20
>files on your vanilla 4.2 or sysV implementation.

I would HOPE that fopen() still uses descriptors (the OS provides no other way
to stuff input into a file, except maybe mucking with the device con-
taining the files [look ma, several files, one descriptor, system crash!] :-)).

No need to "check the sources" to know THAT!
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