std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (11/14/85)
From seismo!gatech!akgua!whuxlm!vilya!am Mon Nov 11 12:34:18 1985 Date: Mon, 11 Nov 85 11:40:54 est John, I believe that both OPEN_MAX and CHILD_MAX are useful as constants available to the programmer to protect against running out of children or files. Use of them in a non-controlled way will, of course, require unnecessary re-compilations when system limits are changed. Let them be in the standard and caveat emptor. Maybe there should be separate limits.h files, eg hardlimits.h for things which will never ( :-) ) change on a given system, such as hardware limits (32-bit etc.) and a softlimits.h file which contains current limits which change when system parameters are updated etc. This will avoid many unnecessary recompilations when the program does not use the softlimits. Avi Malek (vilya!am @ATT-Bell Labs, Parsippany NJ) --- Avi Malek @ATT Bell Labs Parsippany, NJ Volume-Number: Volume 3, Number 14