Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <001301be9c8e$dc513070$0f0a0181@devel014> From: "Nirmal Prasad" To: Cc: Subject: Re: File handle limit in msvcrt Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:48:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 hi there, >The _setmaxstdio function changes the maximum value for the number of files which may be simultaneously open at the stdio level. > > >Note This upper limit may be beyond what is supported by a particular Win32 platform and configuration. > Frankly .. i am totally confused now... On one hand the max no. of files according to the documentation is based on what library one links to on the other hand it can be changed to a max beyond what a particular Win32 platform supports.. Well if you set the limit to a max of 2048 handles then how do u find out if this exceeds ur platform limit??? more precisely how do u then determine the max. number of files that can be opened . And what is the platform limit????????? Does mingw (msvcrt.dll) suffer from the limitation , does cygwin (glibc) suffer from a similar limitation???? Regards Nirmal Prasad R. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com