On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 11:12 -0700, m...@freebsd.org wrote: > I seem to recall a thread earlier on this limitation, but looking at > actual libc/stdio sources, the 4 year old check for open(2)'s fd being > less than SHRT_MAX is still there. I thought I saw a patch to change > this to an int, but it's not in the tree. Was this in a PR or a > mailing list thread or am I just imagining things? > > We've run into this limitation at work, where some processes have > around 32k open file descriptors and then try to use the libc FILE > interface. Since we control ABI we can just change this to int, but I > had been hoping there was a FreeBSD revision we could pull instead of > having another diff.
FWIW, I also remember some discussion recently (this year) on some mailing list about this, but I can't find it now. I thought it was somehow related to in-lib versus external uses of the funopen() function, but I may be conflating two unrelated discusssions in my head. -- Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
