shell file descriptor programming (was: Unlinked temp files)

Leslie Mikesell les at chinet.chi.il.us
Sun May 21 14:37:05 AEST 1989


>[Eduardo Krell]

>The ksh configuration scripts determine how many file descriptors
>your system supports (by running a test program which does dup()'s until
>it fails) and creates a configuration header file which is used to
>compile ksh.

Does this mean something nasty will happen if NOFILES is tuned lower
after the compile - or on a system that receives a binary distribution?


Les Mikesell



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