From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: available file descriptors 12 Sep 1998 23:52:43 GMT Message-ID: <6tf1gb$k48$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <199809120142.SAA07585.cygnus.gnu-win32@www.aeinc.com> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <199809120142.SAA07585.cygnus.gnu-win32@www.aeinc.com>, A. Phillip Smith wrote: > >Unfortunately, the Cygnus mail archive searching is broken. This >question has probably been asked before. Is there an API to allow >extension of the resource limit for available file descriptors >returned by getdtablesize() ? Presumably, setrlimit() works, but >what are the resource parameter arguments for cygwin32 ? There should be no fixed limit on fds in recent versions of cygwin, thanks to Sergey. Try using a recent coolview release: http://www.lexa.ru/sos -- cgf@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/