From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>,
zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: OPEN_MAX from sysconf
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:46:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <961113094601.ZM29148@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> "Re: OPEN_MAX from sysconf" (Nov 13, 5:28pm)
On Nov 13, 5:28pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: OPEN_MAX from sysconf
}
} Johan Danielsson wrote:
} > A lot better, but I assume that you can raise it to an arbitrary
} > limit. The solution we are really looking for is something better than
} > having to malloc(arbitrary number).
}
} You could have some maximum for the initial allocation for fdtable and
} get the stuff in utils.c to allocate more if it was necessary.
I don't think it's worth the effort. In practice there's always going
to be *some* hard limit, even if it's in the thousands; a few thousand
chars allocated isn't going to make that much difference to zsh.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.nbn.com/people/lantern
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-11-13 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-13 15:10 Peter Stephenson
1996-11-13 16:14 ` Johan Danielsson
1996-11-13 16:28 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-11-13 17:46 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1996-11-13 22:46 ` Johan Danielsson
1996-11-13 17:11 ` Bart Schaefer
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