[SunHELP] Solaris 7 and FOPEN_MAX

[Jarrett Carver]

Ahh.. makes sense. Thanks.

>
>Correct.  This is because file descriptor member of the FILE
>structure used with fopen is an unsigned char (see stdio_impl.h),
>which can hold 0-255.  I think only Solaris and IRIX have this
>problem.  Sun refused to fix it, perhaps for purposes of backward
>compatibility.  It sure it a PITA for developers though.
>
> > d. API limits (ref:Solaris Internals)
> >        2. Solaris >= 7
> >           a. stdio(3s) - 256 (32-bit) / 65536 (64-bit)
> >           b. select(3c) - 1024 (32-bit) / 65536 (64-bit)
> >              1. 65536 limit is attainable on 32-bit Solaris 7
> >              2. #define FD_SETSIZE 65536   ; prior to includes
>
>I believe the question is whether the nice folks who develop
>Remedy compiled it with the preprocessor symbols ("defines")
>required to get the 64-bit FILE structure.  If they didn't,
>I don't believe even a 128-bit kernel will do you much good.
>
>Regards,
>
>Nicholas Dronen
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Jarrett Carver           http://www.geocities.com/solarboyz1
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