On 01/26/2012 04:17 AM, K Richard Pixley wrote:
On 1/21/12 03:38 , Lie Ryan wrote:
It is only strictly necessary for programs that opens thousands of files
in a short while, since the operating system may limit of the number of
active file handlers you can have.
The number you're looking for is 20 on many unix systems. That's all. 20
concurrently open file descriptors.
Modern systems open that number up somewhat, or make it tailorable. But
the number is still much lower than you might expect.
From what I can gather, Linux defaults to 1024, Windows 16384, and OSX
256; I doubt many people would need to work with other OSes.
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