Re: Compiling problem on AIX 4.2.1 with gcc

Henrik Nordstrom writes:

>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.

I'm happy to put some limit in the loop. 8192? 16384?

>Also it finds the soft limit
>at the time configure is run, rather than the upper limit of the system.

It should find the hard limit because we increase the soft limit
with setrlimit() if available.

I don't know about systems that don't have setrlimit().

Duane W.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:57 MDT