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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Can't create more pipe Post 23975 by janr on Wednesday 3rd of July 2002 10:33:45 AM
Old 07-03-2002
found at: http://docs.sun.com/

Technical Notes
The symbolic name for this error is EMLINK, errno=31.

Too many open files
Cause
A process has too many files open at once. The system imposes a per-process soft limit on open files, OPEN_MAX (usually 64), which can be increased, and a per-process hard limit (usually 1024), which cannot be increased.

Action
You can control the soft limit from the shell. In the C shell, use the limit(1) command to increase the number of descriptors. In the Bourne or Korn shells, use the ulimit -n command to increase the number of file descriptors.

If the window system refuses to start new applications because of this error, increase the open file limit in your login shell before starting the window system.
 

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getdtablesize(2)						System Calls Manual						  getdtablesize(2)

NAME
getdtablesize() - get the size of the per-process file descriptor table SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The function returns the maximum number of file descriptors that can currently be stored in a process' file descriptor table. This maximum number is also known as the soft limit for open files, and can be adjusted up to the hard limit by calling The entries in the descriptor table are numbered with small integers starting at 0 (zero). The function returns the total number of file descriptors that a process can have open simultaneously. Each process is limited to a cur- rent maximum (soft limit) and a fixed upper bound (hard limit) of open file descriptors. This limit is at least 32. The system-defined limits are configurable. See the descriptions of the and kernel parameters in maxfiles_lim(5) and maxfiles(5), respectively, for informa- tion about changing the system-defined, per-process limit on open file descriptors. RETURN VALUES
The function returns the size of the descriptor table (soft limit), and is always successful. SEE ALSO
close(2), getrlimit(2), open(2), select(2), setrlimit(2), sysconf(2), maxfiles(5), maxfiles_lim(5). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
getdtablesize(2)
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