OT: SCO tunable parameter NOFILES

[Kenneth Brody]

John Esak wrote:
> 
> I just told Brian in the FP Room that there was some major warning never to
> change NOFILES off of 110. Does anyone remember this caveat.  I don't
> remember exactly who told us, when, but somewhere around the time when it
> changed from a default of 60 to 100 and just a short time later to 110, we
> were cautioned not to change it from there.

There can be problems caused by the fact that the C runtime library has
a hard-coded limit to the number of open files it can handle, even if the
O/S has increased this limit.  For example, if you increase NOFILES to
200, it is possible for the system to open a 111th file, yet still have
the C library function open() or fopen() fail.

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