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Article #26Re: Limits on number of open file descriptors in ksh and others
From: Dave Schaumann
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 07:29
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 07:29
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In article <1992Oct29.161118.12523@cas.org>, lwv26@cas (Larry W. Virden) writes: [...] >What benefits are there in limiting the number of file descriptors? And >what harm would be caused if the soft limit were just automatically set to >the hard limit size? I've always assumed that the ability to set limits was for two purposes: to keep run-away processes from grabbing all of some particular resource, and (most importantly, at least to me) to allow you to test a program's exception handling code in a resource-scarce environment. -- Dave Schaumann dave@cs.arizona.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!ncar!noao!amethyst!organpipe.uug.arizona.edu!news From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Limits on number of open file descriptors in ksh and others Message-ID: <1992Oct30.072955.14289@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> Date: 30 Oct 92 07:29:55 GMT References: <1992Oct29.161118.12523@cas.org> Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) Organization: University of Arizona Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)