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Re: fcntl and getdtablesize




On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tim Newsham wrote:

> Question:
> Is there a way to raise the limit on open file descriptors?
> getdtablesize() currently returns 64 (NOFILES).  There
> appears to be a setdtablesize() but it looks like it is
> for internal use only.  If this is not currently supported,
> will it ever be supported?
> 

Well in Win95 you can add FILES=xxx to your config.sys which I think will
work, if that limit could be checked it'd be nice to have the appropiate
limit used (if that makes sense)

- alex

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