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author | Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com> | 2012-11-06 22:51:15 -0800 |
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committer | Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com> | 2012-11-06 22:51:15 -0800 |
commit | 20c6d7ec2c817aa561410130efc8c8254fbef2b2 (patch) | |
tree | 7fedf733ccf6f9ff3ee00913c4fc07110f4a7ba9 /lib/getdtablesize.c | |
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diff --git a/lib/getdtablesize.c b/lib/getdtablesize.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60e7f5a --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/getdtablesize.c @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +/* getdtablesize() function for platforms that don't have it. + Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2008. + + This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify + it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or + (at your option) any later version. + + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + GNU General Public License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ + +#include <config.h> + +/* Specification. */ +#include <unistd.h> + +#if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__ + +#include <stdio.h> + +/* Cache for the previous getdtablesize () result. */ +static int dtablesize; + +int +getdtablesize (void) +{ + if (dtablesize == 0) + { + /* We are looking for the number N such that the valid file descriptors + are 0..N-1. It can be obtained through a loop as follows: + { + int fd; + for (fd = 3; fd < 65536; fd++) + if (dup2 (0, fd) == -1) + break; + return fd; + } + On Windows XP, the result is 2048. + The drawback of this loop is that it allocates memory for a libc + internal array that is never freed. + + The number N can also be obtained as the upper bound for + _getmaxstdio (). _getmaxstdio () returns the maximum number of open + FILE objects. The sanity check in _setmaxstdio reveals the maximum + number of file descriptors. This too allocates memory, but it is + freed when we call _setmaxstdio with the original value. */ + int orig_max_stdio = _getmaxstdio (); + unsigned int bound; + for (bound = 0x10000; _setmaxstdio (bound) < 0; bound = bound / 2) + ; + _setmaxstdio (orig_max_stdio); + dtablesize = bound; + } + return dtablesize; +} + +#endif |