Dick C. Reichenbach wrote: > My most recent concern is that I've had to increase my file descripters > limit from the stock limit of 256 per shell up to the kernel hard limit > of 1024 in the GTK-Gnutella startup shell. I ran for a while at 512, > but the icon kept flashing that I was at my limit, and I was getting > error messages in the console that files couldn't be written.
The problem is really a flaw in Solaris. "FILE" (stdio) cannot handle descriptors above 255 and apparently Sun cannot be bothered to fix this ridiculous issue. I don't think getting rid of "FILE" is reasonable albeit it might be an option. One hack I could think of is to open() /dev/null 20x or so and then wrap fopen() and fclose(), so that we close() one of these file descriptors and open it again after fclose(). That way we could reserve 20 (or whatever amount) of file descriptors below 256. However, library functions might be using fopen() behind the scenes and those would still fail. -- Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
