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Here are the names for the POSIX minimum upper bounds for the system
limit parameters. The significance of these values is that you can
safely push to these limits without checking whether the particular
system you are using can go that far.
_POSIX_ARG_MAX
-
The value of this macro is the most restrictive limit permitted by POSIX
for the maximum combined length of the argv and environ
arguments that can be passed to the
exec functions.
Its value is 4096.
_POSIX_CHILD_MAX
-
The value of this macro is the most restrictive limit permitted by POSIX
for the maximum number of simultaneous processes per real user ID. Its
value is
6.
_POSIX_NGROUPS_MAX
-
The value of this macro is the most restrictive limit permitted by POSIX
for the maximum number of supplementary group IDs per process. Its
value is
0.
_POSIX_OPEN_MAX
-
The value of this macro is the most restrictive limit permitted by POSIX
for the maximum number of files that a single process can have open
simultaneously. Its value is
16.
_POSIX_SSIZE_MAX
-
The value of this macro is the most restrictive limit permitted by POSIX
for the maximum value that can be stored in an object of type
ssize_t. Its value is 32767.
_POSIX_STREAM_MAX
-
The value of this macro is the most restrictive limit permitted by POSIX
for the maximum number of streams that a single process can have open
simultaneously. Its value is
8.
_POSIX_TZNAME_MAX
-
The value of this macro is the most restrictive limit permitted by POSIX
for the maximum length of a time zone name. Its value is
3.
_POSIX2_RE_DUP_MAX
-
The value of this macro is the most restrictive limit permitted by POSIX
for the numbers used in the `\{min,max\}' construct
in a regular expression. Its value is
255.
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