File managment in C++ and visual C++

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Is there any limitation in number of opened file at a same time? How many files could be open at a time? Is there any limitation related to the hard disk in writing data blocks in a file?

Posted 26-Apr-11 20:09pm

eh.azimi

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Albert Holguin 27-Apr-11 14:27pm

every time you open a file, the contents are typically loaded to memory, so opening a large number of files is not recommended

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Solution 4

Actually, this is a good question. No matter if you going to hit some limits, you should always know what limits are. In any case, he already got a useful information about C Run-time limitations. In the end, you are always interested in hard disk or memory size, and processors speed limits. Comparing NTFS and FAT you will always mention support for long names limited in FAT.
Sergey Chepurin.

Posted 30-Apr-11 0:10am

Sergey Chepurin

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There is a C run time limit that Vishal has mentioned above (you can set its value up to 2048). Depending on the OS, this may or may not work. If the OS's max limit per process is less than that, setting it to 2048 won't help. Simuilarly, if the OS has a higher limit, you still can't take advantage of that.

Realistically speaking, your app will most likely choke way before you hit this limit. In general try not to use up OS resources to their max limit.

Posted 27-Apr-11 6:12am

Nish Nishant

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If you're about to hit any system limitation, it is a good sign of the problem of your software design.
If you can justify opening many files, I would like to see it. It is likely that a more reasonable approach exists.

—SA

Posted 27-Apr-11 6:07am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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vishal_kapoor · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26T20:43:00

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You will find your answer here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6e3b887c.aspx[^]

Posted 26-Apr-11 20:43pm

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