Indeed the case for certain crippled OS:es like Solaris 32 bit API.
Note: fdopen is also as useless on these OS:es for the same reasons..
8 bit field in the FILE structure for storing the filedescriptor..
Not sure I even want to think about spending time on supporting such
crippled OS:es, especially considering the OS vendors today have
alternative interfaces which is not crippled like this. For Solaris,
just compile applications 64bits and be done with it.
Regards
Henrik
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 18.24, Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
> hi,
>
> we should really avoid fopen() in any place. it may fail when
> first 256 FDs are in use. Cause of failures during reconfig.
>
>
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