Re: [MiNT] Ammount of file descriptors per process

[Standa Opichal <opichals@seznam.cz>]

Hi!

Adam Klobukowski wrote:

> Frank Naumann napisał(a):
>
> > RLIMIT_NOFILE
> >
> >     This is a number one greater than the maximum value that the system
> >     may assign to a newly-created descriptor. If this limit is exceeded,
> >     functions that allocate new file descriptors may fail with errno set
> >     to [EMFILE]. This limit constrains the number of file descriptors
> >     that a process may allocate.

And after how many files there is EMFILE error there? Could comeone test it?

> > > 3. Opening (creating) files using system call Fcreate(), the maximum 
> > > ammount of files it tries to open is taken from Sysconf(SYS_MAXFILES) 
> > > system call.
> >
> >  * Sysconf(which): returns information about system configuration.
> >  *       2      max. number of open files per process   {OPEN_MAX}
> >
> > > Ad 3. Sysconf(SYS_MAXFILES) returns 32. Test fails after opening 26 
> > > files.
> >
> > This is not the number of files you can open, this is the maximum 
> > number of files a process can have open.

Hoops this sentence is where my English fails completely, could you 
write it some other way for us (yes, we are more than one here that 
didn't get it)?

> > Under Unix every process have at least 3 open file descriptors at
>> start (stdin, stdout, stderr). Under FreeMiNT it's more due to
>> TOS emulation.

Right. Hmm, so does Sysconf(2) return the number of files a single 
process can open (32)?

STanda