jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) writes:
> Connie <yeconnie@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> How do you determine the upper limit in C and Perl?  There are soft
> and hard (per-process) limits and system-wide versus per-process
> limits - are you sure you're asking for the same thing in C and Perl?
> 1024 looks like it could be the value for the per-process limit while
> 10371 might be the system-wide limit.

It's weirder than that: On the system where I tried (Debian Stable/
Linux 2.6.20-rc3), the first script below prints 1024 after having
done a getrlimit-call and the second 131072, apparently pulling
the number out of some hat.

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use POSIX;

printf "%s\n", POSIX::sysconf(POSIX::_SC_OPEN_MAX);
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use POSIX qw(sysconf);

printf "%s\n", POSIX::sysconf(POSIX::_SC_OPEN_MAX);
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