Is there a limit to create sockets on UNIX??

James H. Coombs jhc at m2jhc.uucp
Fri Jul 27 03:36:31 AEST 1990


In article <2913 at awdprime.UUCP> kent at opus.austin.ibm.com (Kent Malave') writes:
>
>	Sounds like a filesystem limitation.

I agree, although I would say that it is not a filesystem limitation
but a limit on the number of files that may be concurrently open for a
single process.

>	You might try INET family sockets!

Internet domain sockets still take a file descriptor in the process
even though no file is created on the filesystem.

--Jim



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