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Subject: Re: Determining the max number of open files on System V
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Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 14:18:12 EDT
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> Remember guys, this is Unix, we keep forks cheap for a reason, why
> reinvent the wheel?

Remember guys, this is UNIX where developers forget to document all
sorts of useful things, they put "ulimit(4, 0L)" in for a reason.
The way you get the max number of open files in S5R3 is

	int ndescriptors;
	extern long ulimit();

	ndescriptors = ulimit(4, 0L);

as indicated in my previous posting, not by various unnecessary
kludges involving poking around in "/dev/kmem" or running
"/etc/sysdef".
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com