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GETDTABLESIZE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
NOTES
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

NAME

getdtablesize ? get descriptor table size

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int getdtablesize(void);

DESCRIPTION

getdtablesize returns the maximum number of files a process can have open.

NOTES

getdtablesize is implemented as a library function in DLL 4.4.1. This function returns OPEN_MAX (set to 256 in Linux 2.0.23) if OPEN_MAX was defined when the library was compiled. Otherwise, ?1 is returned, and errno is set to ENOSYS.

CONFORMING TO

SVr4, 4.4BSD (the getdtablesize function first appeared in BSD 4.2).

SEE ALSO

close(2), dup(2), open(2)


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