Re: Compiling problem on AIX 4.2.1 with gcc

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:33:41 +0200

Duane Wessels wrote:

> >> while((j=open("/dev/null", 0)) > 0) i=j;

> why, whats wrong with it?

Some systems have tremendous amounts of filedescriptors which will cause
this operation to take quite a bit of time. Also it finds the soft limit
at the time configure is run, rather than the upper limit of the system.

/Henrik
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