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GETDTABLESIZE (2)

get descriptor table size

SYNOPSIS

    #include <unistd.h> int getdtablesize(void);

DESCRIPTION

    getdtablesize returns the maximum number of files a process can have open.

NOTES

    getdtablesize is implemented as a library function in DLL 4.4.1. This function returns OPEN_MAX (set to 256 in Linux 2.0.23) if OPEN_MAX was defined when the library was compiled. Otherwise, -1 is returned, and errno is set to ENOSYS .

CONFORMING TO

    SVr4, 4.4BSD (the getdtablesize function first appeared in BSD 4.2).

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