On 1 November 2012 10:40, Ian Lepore <free...@damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote: > 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.
Perhaps http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/stdio-and-short-file-descriptors-revisited-td5747703.html ? -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ 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"
