roland@ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath) (09/26/90)
Is FOPEN_MAX supposed to include the standard streams stdin, stdout, and stderr, or not? (i.e. Should FOPEN_MAX be the number of possible open descriptors, or that number minus three?) Thanks, Roland McGrath -- Roland McGrath Free Software Foundation, Inc. roland@ai.mit.edu, uunet!ai.mit.edu!roland
bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) (09/26/90)
In article <ROLAND.90Sep26033201@geech.ai.mit.edu> roland@ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath) writes: >Is FOPEN_MAX supposed to include the standard streams stdin, stdout, and >stderr, or not? (i.e. Should FOPEN_MAX be the number of possible open >descriptors, or that number minus three?) "The value of FOPEN_MAX shall be at least eight, including the three standard text streams." (ANSI X3.159-1989, sec. 4.9.3, pp. 128, l. 2) --Blair "Hi, Doug."