GETDTABLESIZE(E) Linux Programmer's Manual GETDTABLESIZE(E) NAME getdtablesize - get descriptor table size SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> int getdtablesize(e); DESCRIPTION getdtablesize returns the maximum number of files a pro- cess can have open. NOTES getdtablesize is implemented as a library function in DLL 4.4.1. This function returns OPEN_MAX (set to 256 in Linux 2.0.23) if OPEN_MAX was defined when the library was compiled. Otherwise, -1 is returned, and errno is set to ENOSYS. CONFORMING TO SVr4, 4.4BSD (the getdtablesize function first appeared in BSD 4.2). SEE ALSO close(e), dup(p), open(n) Linux 0.99.11 1993-07-22 GETDTABLESIZE(E)