GETDTABLESIZE man page on SuSE

Man page or keyword search:  
man Server   14857 pages
apropos Keyword Search (all sections)
Output format
SuSE logo
[printable version]

GETDTABLESIZE(2)	   Linux Programmer's Manual	      GETDTABLESIZE(2)

NAME
       getdtablesize - get descriptor table size

SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       int getdtablesize(void);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       getdtablesize(): _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500

DESCRIPTION
       getdtablesize()	returns the maximum number of files a process can have
       open, one more than the largest possible value for a file descriptor.

RETURN VALUE
       The current limit on the number of open files per process.

ERRORS
       On Linux, getdtablesize() can return any of the	errors	described  for
       getrlimit(2); see NOTES below.

CONFORMING TO
       SVr4,  4.4BSD  (the getdtablesize() function first appeared in 4.2BSD).
       It is not  specified  in	 POSIX.1-2001;	portable  applications	should
       employ sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) instead of this call.

NOTES
       getdtablesize()	is  implemented as a libc library function.  The glibc
       version calls getrlimit(2) and returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE limit,
       or  OPEN_MAX  when  that	 fails.	  The  libc4 and libc5 versions return
       OPEN_MAX (set to 256 since Linux 0.98.4).

SEE ALSO
       close(2), dup(2), getrlimit(2), open(2)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.15 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A
       description  of	the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux				  2007-07-26		      GETDTABLESIZE(2)
[top]

List of man pages available for SuSE

Copyright (c) for man pages and the logo by the respective OS vendor.

For those who want to learn more, the polarhome community provides shell access and support.

[legal] [privacy] [GNU] [policy] [cookies] [netiquette] [sponsors] [FAQ]
Tweet
Polarhome, production since 1999.
Member of Polarhome portal.
Based on Fawad Halim's script.
....................................................................
Vote for polarhome
Free Shell Accounts :: the biggest list on the net