According to the Linux man page for getdtablesize(3), the latter is
supposed to return "the maximum number of files a process can have
open, one more than the largest possible value for a file descriptor."
The constant OPEN_MAX_MAX is the only limit enforced by Cygwin, so we
now return that.
Previously getdtablesize returned the current size of cygheap->fdtab,
Cygwin's internal file descriptor table. But this is a dynamically
growing table, and its current size does not reflect an actual limit
on the number of open files.
With this change, gnulib now reports that getdtablesize and
fcntl(F_DUPFD) work on Cygwin. Packages like GNU tar that use the
corresponding gnulib modules will no longer use gnulib replacements on
Cygwin.
---
winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
index 5da05b18a..1f16d54b9 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
@@ -2887,7 +2887,7 @@ setdtablesize (int size)
extern "C" int
getdtablesize ()
{
- return cygheap->fdtab.size;
+ return OPEN_MAX_MAX;
}
extern "C" int
--
2.30.0
