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.\" Modified 2002-04-15 by Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch> and aeb
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.TH GETDTABLESIZE 2 2002-04-15 "Linux 2.4" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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getdtablesize \- get descriptor table size
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <unistd.h>
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.sp
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.B int getdtablesize(void);
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.BR getdtablesize ()
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returns the maximum number of files a process can have open,
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one more than the largest possible value for a file descriptor.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The current limit on the number of open files per process.
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.SH NOTES
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.BR getdtablesize ()
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is implemented as a libc library function. The glibc version calls
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.BR getrlimit (2)
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and returns the current
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.B RLIMIT_NOFILE
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limit, or
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.B OPEN_MAX
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when that fails.
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The libc4 and libc5 versions return
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.B OPEN_MAX
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(set to 256 since Linux 0.98.4).
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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SVr4, 4.4BSD (the
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.BR getdtablesize ()
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function first appeared in 4.2BSD).
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR close (2),
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.BR dup (2),
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.BR getrlimit (2),
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.BR open (2)
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