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Re: Limit on number of open files
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: Edward Deitz <endeitz at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:03:42 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: Limit on number of open files
- References: <20040415204325.21595.qmail@web14303.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Edward Deitz wrote:
> So I tested with the following code:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> int
> main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> int i;
> for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
> {
> FILE *f = fopen("/dev/null", "r");
> if (!f)
> break;
> printf("%d\n", i);
> }
> exit(0);
> }
>
> Results:
>
> 0
> 1
> ...
> 132
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> So the limit appears to be 133 files. And it appears
> to have no relation to the ulimit command (which is
> probably intentional, I'm not sure if ulimit is
> supposed to work in Cygwin).
>
> Any ideas, anyone?
Please search the archives before posting.
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00990.html
and later
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01008.html
also related
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00988.html
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VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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