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I can't seem to get perl to open more than 254 files. Is this a
known limitation, or is it a bug? I can't find any info other than
Solaris had a similar problem (except it was 256 for Solaris) but is
now fixed.
To test, I wrote this script that will generate 254 lines of "open
(FILE... die...". I copy the output of this script, paste it into a
new script and execute the new script. The output of the new script
is at the bottom of this message.
#!/usr/bin/perl
$killer = 254;
print "#!/usr/bin/perl\n\n";
for ( $i=0; $i<$killer; $i++) {
print "open (FILE$i, \"> test$i\") or die \"cant open $i \";\n";
}
Output:
cant open 253 at ./bla.pl line 256.
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Thanks,
James Reynolds
University of Utah
Student Computing Labs
james@scl.utah.edu
801-585-9811
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