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In article <1993Sep22.200314.881@esseye.si.com>,
Ken Jongsma <jongsma@tws4.si.com> wrote:
>I've been trying to compile the latest release of c-news on a 386
>that was recently upgraded from Xenix to SCO Dev. Edition.
>
>The make gets as far as compiling closeall.c and chokes. closeall.c
>makes reference to a variable called NOFILE that I can't find a
>definition for in any of the system or c-news .h files.
>

I just saw that one last night. The prior time I compiled Cnews was
with SCO's 3.2v4.0 Development System. Now I have 3.2v4.2, and you're
right, NOFILE appears in none of the header files.

The header file that closeall.c includes is sys/param.h, and there we now
see:

/*	The following represent the minimum and maximum values to
**	which the parameter NOFILES in the kernel master file may
**	be set.
*/

#define	NOFILES_MIN	60
#define	NOFILES_MAX	11000

Henry's build script will need a minor change. But for the moment,
to get a recompilation done last night, I just checked what I used for
NOFILES (plural!) when running /etc/conf/cf.d/configure. It was 60, and I
just used brute force in closeall.c:


#include <sys/param.h>

/* JPRadley: */
#ifndef NOFILE
#define NOFILE 60
#endif

void
closeall(leavestd)
int leavestd;
{
	register int i;

	for (i = (leavestd? 3: 0); i < NOFILE; i++)
		close(i);
}


Ain't standards grand, etc., etc...
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