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Re: [PATCH] Silently lower nmerge; don't (sometimes incorrectly) range-c
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [PATCH] Silently lower nmerge; don't (sometimes incorrectly) range-check it. |
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Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:00:43 -0700 |
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Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:
> would RLIMIT_NOFILE be a better limit than INT_MAX if available?
No, as the later code will behave the same regardless of whether INT_MAX
or the NOFILE-limit value is used, and if we use INT_MAX we'll save a
system call.
However, also please see the patch "Use a heap for the internal merge"
which I just now submitted
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/msg00174.html>;
to some extent it makes this question moot.