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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Getting the pathname from a FILE*.
Message-ID: <27259@bbn.COM>
Date: 21 Jul 88 14:08:30 GMT
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From article <49@minya.UUCP>, by jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers):
> There are lots of uses.  Consider a problem I am having on a current
> project:  A program running on a Sun is running out of files.  My code
> opens maybe 6 or 8 files at the most.  So where do the others come from?
> Easy - they are opened by library subroutines.  My code can't remember
> the names of those files; my code didn't open them.  This makes debugging
> very difficult.

This isn't by any chance a SunView program is it?  Since SunView windows
are actually devices, client programs access them via file descriptors.
It's amazing how fast 4.2BSD's limit of 30 can get eaten up in a
fair-sized [full-screen] application.

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