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From: davidh@dent.Berkeley.EDU (David S. Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Number of windows?
Keywords: demo, NeXT
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Date: 3 Dec 88 02:05:42 GMT
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> The X server sees each client connection through a socket, which takes
> up a file descriptor slot, which counts against NOFILE.  For example,
> using an X server compiled before SunOS 3.4, one could only have 14
> windows open on the screen because NOFILE was only 15 (a fd was thrown
> away for various overhead things).  In SunOS since 3.4 NOFILE is 30.
> I don't know about 4.0.

Small correction: one could only have 14 *client applications*
connected to the server at once.  Under X,  each client can create
as many windows as it likes subject to the memory constraints of
the server.

				David Harrison
				UC Berkeley Electronics Research Lab
				(davidh@ic.Berkely.EDU, ...!ucbvax!davidh)