From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: More than 64 files open? 22 Nov 1996 18:29:06 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199611230003.QAA11085.cygnus.gnu-win32@cirdan.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text Original-To: mcgann@isr.umd.edu (Mike McGann) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from "Mike McGann" at Nov 22, 96 04:20:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Length: 684 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > We are currently porting a database system to Windows 95 and have been > using the cygnus development with much success. On problem that we have > come across is that there seems to be a limit to the number of files that > can be open at one time. Since this is a database, we need to have many > files open while the program is running. I wrote a quick little program to > see how many files I could have open at one time and it came out to be 64. Funny how those numbers always end up being powers of two... :-) Well, starting with the next release, there is no longer a hard limit on the number of open files. I suggest waiting until then. -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".