Re: Access strauss for build tests

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 17.12.09 Samuel Thibault (sthibault@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse, le Thu 17 Dec 2009 11:03:09 +0100, a écrit :

Hi Samuel,

> > detex.l:92: error: 'NOFILE' undeclared here (not in a function)
> > 
> > i.e. this line in the header
> > 
> > FILE    *rgfp[NOFILE+1];                /* stack of input/include files */
> > 
> > Can you help us here?
> 
> Just quoting glibc's NOFILE comment:
> 
> /* The following are not really correct but it is a value we used for a
>    long time and which seems to be usable.  People should not use NOFILE
>    and NCARGS anyway.  */
> #define NOFILE		256
> #define	NCARGS		131072
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/porting/guidelines.html tells to
> dynamically request it through
> 
> getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE,...)
> 
> Which returns 1024,1024 on Linux (and 1024,2^31-1 on GNU/Hurd).
> 
I'm sorry, I'm not a programmer. How should the correct code look in
your opinion:

#ifdef GNU
FILE    *rgfp[getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE,...)+1];
#else
FILE	*rgfp[NOFILE+1];
#endif

Or should I replace the getrlimit by 1024?

Many thanks,
  Hilmar
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