From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: zsh-workers-request@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA05315 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 03:37:04 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA02394; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:13:33 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:13:33 -0500 (EST) Sender: joda@pdc.kth.se To: Peter Stephenson Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list), rjones@pobox.com Subject: Re: OPEN_MAX from sysconf References: <199611131510.QAA24982@hydra.ifh.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.78) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) Date: 13 Nov 1996 17:14:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson's message of Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:10:39 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.48/Emacs 19.33 Resent-Message-ID: <"Uq8D33.0.Kb.iEVYo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2390 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Peter Stephenson writes: > Phew, this is rather a mess when you look into the details. Here's > the story. 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). /Johan