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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Number of windows?
Keywords: demo, NeXT
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Date: 2 Dec 88 19:02:24 GMT
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In article <1813@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
|In article <28876@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
|>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...
|
|I bet I'm not the only one who's going to jump on this, but just in case...

So far you are the only one.  Why is everyone being so gentle today? :-)

|Don't confuse X *clients* with X *windows*.  NOFILE indeed limits the
|number of clients you can have.  However, each client can open an
|effectively unlimited (i.e., limited by other resources such as
|memory) number of windows.

You're right - I was imprecise.  Perhaps my memory was clouded by the
fact that there weren't many multi-window clients under X10, which is
what we used in the pre-3.4 period.