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Article #33Re: OPEN_MAX and other constants - are they desireable?
From: Moderator, John Quarterman
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1985 22:02
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1985 22:02
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 85 11:13:43 pst From: seismo!gatech!hplabs!sdcrdcf!scgvaxd!felix!peregrine!mike (Mike Wexler) I have another argument against the desirability of these constants. It does not allow people to do implementations that don't have any limititations(other than availability of resources) It would be fairly easy to desing a system that would allow you to have an "unlimited" number of files, by allocating a new table when the current table gets full. Mike Wexler (trwrb|scgvaxd)!felix!peregrine!mike (714)855-3923 Volume-Number: Volume 3, Number 25
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!seismo!ut-sally!std-unix From: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) Newsgroups: mod.std.unix Subject: Re: OPEN_MAX and other constants - are they desireable? Message-ID: <3572@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 17:02:44 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3572 Posted: Tue Nov 19 17:02:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Nov-85 04:09:18 EST References: <3430@ut-sally.UUCP> <3505@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: IEEE/P1003 Portable Operating System Environment Committee Lines: 13 Approved: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP