some header bugs

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Jan 17 19:58:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:55:08PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> By whose authority, though?  Like Earnie, I can't find a valid
>> declaration of setdtablesize anywhere.
>
>The only authority I could find is what bash is expecting of it.
>Perhaps we shouldn't even provide it?

It's really not needed anymore since cygwin, like I presume most other
"UNIXes" auto-grows its fd table.

But, who knows what it will screw up if we stop exporting it.

I guess we'll have to bow to bash as the authority and change it.  Should
it return 0 on success, -1 on error?

cgf


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