Re: 2 questions: getter/setter use and streams use

Thats right - I am talking about ANSI stdio; fopen() etc., not POSIX open(). --Wez. On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, George Schlossnagle wrote: > > On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Wez Furlong wrote: > > > On the contrary, it's easy to underestimate the problem :) > > > > If you are using a stdio replacement, (such as sfio), then you are > > more-or-less safe from the problem. > > > > The problem is that the native libc will not allow file descriptors > > with a numerical value > 255, regardless of your per-process file > > descriptor limit. > > I don't think this is true. > > #include "stdio.h" > #include "fcntl.h" > > int main() { > int i = 0; > int fd = 0; > while(1) { > char path[11]; > snprintf(path, 11, "/tmp/t/%d", i++); > if((fd = open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0)) < 0 ) { > return; > } > printf("Opened fd: %d number %d\n", fd, i); > } > } > > created me 1021 fd's as a non-priv'd user on my Sol 2.6 system (with > it's standard libc). > > The problem is with the stdio routines (fopen et. al.). As long as you > don't use fopen you're set. > > > >