It could be made a configure option (Perhaps LINUX_LARGE_SERVER).
Or some other fancy option name.
Other options would be (And I would have no clue how to do this
part), making it a kernel boot option (maxfd=2048)
- Jared
Sebastian Benoit graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
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> On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > Here is a patch of mine to do just what you want. I think it
> > is very important to put this patch into the kernel as most modern OS'es
> > (Solaris, OSF/1, etc..) have higher limits of at least 1024 per process.
> >
> > - Jared
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> Since this question comes up from time to time, why don't put
> the patch (together with some explanation what ist does ...) into
> linux/Documentation ?
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> - Sebastian Benoit Save the planet !
> - benoit@mathematik.uni-marburg.de
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> - http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~benoit less is more !
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