值得一提的是,Beginning Linux Programming的第4版于2007年出版;它的一部分可能有点过时了. (这不是对这本书的批评,我还没读过.)
看来OPEN_MAX已被弃用,至少在Linux系统上是这样.原因似乎是可以同时打开的最大文件数不固定,因此扩展为整数字的宏不是获取该信息的好方法.
另一个宏FOPEN_MAX应该是相似的;我想不出OPEN_MAX和FOPEN_MAX如果定义的话应该有不同的值的原因.但是FOPEN_MAX是C语言标准的强制要求,因此系统没有选择不定义它. C标准说FOPEN_MAX
expands to an integer constant expression that is the minimum number of files that
the implementation guarantees can be open simultaneously
(如果“最小”这个词令人困惑,则可以保证程序可以同时打开至少那么多文件.)
如果您想要当前可以打开的最大文件数,请查看sysconf()功能;在我的系统上,sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)返回1024.(sysconf()手册页引用符号OPEN_MAX.这不是计数,而是sysconf()识别的值.并且它没有在我的系统上定义.)
我在我的Ubuntu系统上搜索了OPEN_MAX(字匹配,因此不包括FOPEN_MAX),并发现以下内容(这些显然只是简短的摘录):
/usr/include/X11/Xos.h:
# ifdef __GNU__
# define PATH_MAX 4096
# define MAXPATHLEN 4096
# define OPEN_MAX 256 /* We define a reasonable limit. */
# endif
/usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/bits/local_lim.h:
/* The kernel header pollutes the namespace with the NR_OPEN symbol
and defines LINK_MAX although filesystems have different maxima. A
similar thing is true for OPEN_MAX: the limit can be changed at
runtime and therefore the macro must not be defined. Remove this
after including the header if necessary. */
#ifndef NR_OPEN
# define __undef_NR_OPEN
#endif
#ifndef LINK_MAX
# define __undef_LINK_MAX
#endif
#ifndef OPEN_MAX
# define __undef_OPEN_MAX
#endif
#ifndef ARG_MAX
# define __undef_ARG_MAX
#endif
/usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/bits/xopen_lim.h:
/* We do not provide fixed values for
ARG_MAX Maximum length of argument to the `exec' function
including environment data.
ATEXIT_MAX Maximum number of functions that may be registered
with `atexit'.
CHILD_MAX Maximum number of simultaneous processes per real
user ID.
OPEN_MAX Maximum number of files that one process can have open
at anyone time.
PAGESIZE
PAGE_SIZE Size of bytes of a page.
PASS_MAX Maximum number of significant bytes in a password.
We only provide a fixed limit for
IOV_MAX Maximum number of `iovec' structures that one process has
available for use with `readv' or writev'.
if this is indeed fixed by the underlying system.
*/