On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:16:10AM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> It seems to me that 'ulimit -n' (a number of open files limit) is broken
> in NetBSD RC-3. See the folllowing typescript.
> 0 ~>awk 'BEGIN {for (i=1; i <= 2000; ++i){print uraaa > ("/tmp/file_number_" i)}}'      
> awk: /tmp/file_number_18 makes too many open files
>  source line number 1
> 2 ~>ls -la /tmp/file_numb* | wc -l
>       17
> 0 ~>ktrace awk 'BEGIN {for (i=1; i <= 2000; ++i){print uraaa > ("/tmp/file_number_" i)}}'
> awk: /tmp/file_number_18 makes too many open files
...
>   6986      1 awk      RET   write 1
>   6986      1 awk      CALL  open(0x8074a00,0x601,0x1b6)
>   6986      1 awk      NAMI  "/tmp/file_number_17"
>   6986      1 awk      RET   open 20/0x14
>   6986      1 awk      CALL  __fstat30(0x14,0xbfbfdce8)
> --
>   6986      1 awk      GIO   fd 2 wrote 45 bytes
>        "/tmp/file_number_18 makes too many open files"
>   6986      1 awk      RET   write 45/0x2d

If it were a kernel probelm there would an error return.
So it must be a problem in awk.

	David

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