On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:

# > > I don't know of any unix or unix-like multi-user systems that only
# > > allow(ed) 64 open files as as a hard limit (assuming you're talking
# > > about the hard limit enforced by MAXFILES aka kern.maxfiles, since
# > > that's the only hard limit w.r.t. open files).
# >
# > Erm the 'traditional' limit was 20.
#
# You're talking about OPEN_MAX, not MAXFILES

That's what we're discussing here, yes.  We're discussing the nominal
value of `ulimit -n`.  Not kern.maxfiles

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