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From: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Determining the max number of open files on System V
Message-ID: <2952@hcrvx2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 10:49:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: hcrvx2.2952
Posted: Thu Jun 11 10:49:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 08:50:57 EDT
References: <7730@brl-adm.ARPA> <20599@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: jimr@hcr.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <20599@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.UUCP writes:
>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

Is there not a certain amount of risk in using an undocumented feature,
as there is no guarantee whatsoever that it will  exist in later
releases?

J.B. Robinson