FOPEN_MAX

Blair P. Houghton bhoughto at cmdnfs.intel.com
Thu Sep 27 01:10:24 AEST 1990


In article <ROLAND.90Sep26033201 at geech.ai.mit.edu> roland at ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath) writes:
>Is FOPEN_MAX supposed to include the standard streams stdin, stdout, and
>stderr, or not?  (i.e. Should FOPEN_MAX be the number of possible open
>descriptors, or that number minus three?)

"The value of FOPEN_MAX shall be at least eight, including the three
standard text streams."  (ANSI X3.159-1989, sec. 4.9.3, pp. 128, l. 2)

				--Blair
				  "Hi, Doug."



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