On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, David Phillips wrote:

> You can use getrlimit(2) and setrlimit(2). They are in POSIX, but it will
> likely be necessary to add a check to configure for them. I suppose that
> the best thing to do is not open any extra file descriptors if FD_SETSIZE
> exceeds getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE)->rlim_max (in which case it would act like
> test 500). Also, it might be a little cleaner to use dup(2) instead of
> opening /dev/null a number of times.

You feel like taking a stab at this?

I've just committed your patch (with my minor edits) to CVS. We should pay
attention to http://curl.haxx.se/auto/ now, to make sure this
builds/runs/tests fine all over.

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