Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] issues with tethereal and ring buffers...

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From: Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:11:59 -0600
looks like the MAX setting for files is set to the minimum of 10 and
FOPEN_MAX, but FOPEN_MAX is defined to be 16 on the linux includes I
have. That bears no relation to the actual number of files that can be
opened. Why limit it? wouldn't it be better to use sysconf or getrlimit?

-- Nathan

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