How many connections can accept a 'binded' socket?

[billiejoex]

On 20 Mar, 17:44, John Nagle <n... at animats.com> wrote:
> When you ask questions like this, please specify what
> operating system you're using.   Thanks.

That was a Linux Ubuntu 6.10. I submitted a bug report on sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1685000&group_id=5470&atid=105470


Alex Martelli wrote:
> A shell command
> ulimit -Hn
> should report on the hard-limit of the number of open file descriptors;
> just ulimit -n should report on the current soft-limit.

Thank you, I'll try it.