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From: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Determining the max number of open files on System V
Message-ID: <2996@pegasus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 21:58:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: pegasus.2996
Posted: Tue Jun 23 21:58:57 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 06:25:19 EDT
References: <7730@brl-adm.ARPA> <20599@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (60021254-Tony L. Hansen;LZ 3B-315;6243)
Organization: AT&T-IS Labs, Lincroft, NJ
Lines: 13
Keywords: ulimit, NFILES
Summary: documented in SVr3.1

< 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);

This feature is documented in the System V release 3.1 documentation. So now
you can safely expect it to remain there for awhile. :-)

					Tony Hansen
					ihnp4!pegasus!hansen