Kevin Brown <kevin(at)sysexperts(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm. This may be OS-specific. The shlibs certainly show up in the
>> output of lsof in every variant I've checked, but do they count against
>> your open-file limit?
> It seems not, for both shared libraries that are linked in at startup
> time by the dynamic linker and shared libraries that are explicitly
> opened via dlopen().
It would certainly make life a lot easier if we could assume that dlopen
doesn't reduce your open-files limit.
> Attached is the test program I used.
Can folks please try this on other platforms?
regards, tom lane