no files can be opened in a C program

[Dave Hylands]

Hi Abhijit,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Abhijit Pawar <apawar.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/25/2011 05:29 PM, Naveen Kumar wrote:
>
> You can use command ulimit -a, there you can check the limit for a process.
>
> Thanks,
> Naveen
>
> Ulimit gives 1024 as open file limit. In struct task_struct it has a member
> called struct files_struct *files;
>
> I tried checking for this member and the limit however I am  not able to
> decide correctly why the limit is 1024.
>  Also, is there any distinction between 32 bit and 64 bit systems for this
> limit?

My 64-bit system reports 1024 as well.

I have no troubles compiling kernels.

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