Re: Deliver to scripts...

[Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>]

On Tue, 21 Feb 1995, Rich Salz wrote:

> > > >         373:    cannot fdopen(8) (retry in 45s, expires in 2h57m24s)
> >   System is running at the default limit of 2048 file descripters per 
> > process, so I don't think this is a problem.
> 
> If you are running on SunOS it is a problem.  Sun4.x libc cannot handle
> filedescriptors greater then 128.  (grep fileno /usr/include/stdio.h).
> A common occurrence is that open succeeds, returns fd # 135 or so, and
> then fdopen() fails because libc thinks it's got a negative number.
> Sun's response to bug reports is "upgrade to Solaris"

  Ok, I'm not using Sun.  I'm using FreeBSD, and I'm running with the 
default kernel configuration of 2048 file descriptors per process.

Tom