2K? that's micro -- use macrosoft for lots a files, please!

diff --git a/libs/ardour/globals.cc b/libs/ardour/globals.cc
index 0a1d0cd085406dd66920e8b15a6cef90ff013ed1..b2ad67d0538ccce16a2c25464274cae3e7df7057 100644 (file)
--- a/libs/ardour/globals.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/globals.cc
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 #include "pbd/gstdio_compat.h"
 
 #ifdef PLATFORM_WINDOWS
+#include <stdio.h> // for _setmaxstdio
 #include <windows.h> // for LARGE_INTEGER
 #endif
 
@@ -273,6 +274,21 @@ lotsa_files_please ()
        } else {
                error << string_compose (_("Could not get system open files limit (%1)"), strerror (errno)) << endmsg;
        }
+#else
+       /* this only affects stdio. 2048 is the maxium possible (512 the default).
+        *
+        * If we want more, we'll have to replaces the POSIX I/O interfaces with
+        * Win32 API calls (CreateFile, WriteFile, etc) which allows for 16K.
+        *
+        * see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/870173/is-there-a-limit-on-number-of-open-files-in-windows
+        * and http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=24509
+        */
+       int newmax = _setmaxstdio (2048);
+       if (newmax > 0) {
+               info << string_compose (_("Your system is configured to limit %1 to only %2 open files"), PROGRAM_NAME, newmax) << endmsg;
+       } else {
+               error << string_compose (_("Could not set system open files limit. Current limit is %1 open files"), _getmaxstdio)  << endmsg;
+       }
 #endif
 }