Errno man page

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Mon Jul 18 16:21:48 GMT 2005


<<On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 01:37:29 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> I think that instead of trying to guess a value that would be correct for
> many filesystems, but obviously wrong for others, we should just remove the
> explicit size.

But tell people how to use pathconf(3)/getconf(1) to find out what it
is.

>> - for EMFILE - is the limit on open files really 64 per process?

> Not necessarily.  It's what kern.maxfilesperproc says.  On my CURRENT
> system that is a little lower than kern.maxfiles:

This, too, should probably be documented under the portable
interface(s) in addition to the FreeBSD-private one.

-GAWollman



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