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Subject: Re: Re: How do you increase the number o
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Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 18:28:00 EDT
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Nf-From: hpfcls!rml    Jun 11 14:28:00 1984


Another dependency on 32 or less open files in the 4.xBSD is in select.
This is relatively easy to change in the kernel, but can affect user
code as well. Even a program which never has more than 20 open files can
get in trouble if it passes NOFILE as its nfds parameter.

				Bob Lenk
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