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Re: [RFA/commit] Fix filestuff.c build error if RLIMIT_NOFILE not defined.


> Joel> Bordering on the obvious, I decided for an RFA, just in case, because
> Joel> it relies on RLIMIT_NOFILE always being a marcro, POSIX does not seem
> Joel> to require it. It seems to be true in practice, though, for all systems
> Joel> I checked (Various flavors of GNU/Linux, including embedded ones,
> Joel> Solaris, AIX, Lynx, etc).
> 
> It seems relatively ok to me.
> To really fail the system would have to lack this #define and also lack
> sysconf + _SC_OPEN_MAX.  And then the failure mode is just that gdb
> works the way it always did in the past.

Makes sense. Patch now pushed.

Thanks, Tom.
-- 
Joel


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