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Re: OPEN_MAX from sysconf

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: OPEN_MAX from sysconf
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:28:05 +0100
In-reply-to: "Johan Danielsson"'s message of "13 Nov 1996 17:14:51 MET." <xof9186km4k.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Johan Danielsson wrote:
> Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx> 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).

You could have some maximum for the initial allocation for fdtable and
get the stuff in utils.c to allocate more if it was necessary.
I don't feel like more rewriting myself at the moment.

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References:
- Re: OPEN_MAX from sysconf
  - From: Johan Danielsson

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