Re: [hatari-devel] Max amount of GEMDOS HD file handles?

[Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Thu, 27 Jul 2023 21:06:09 +0300
schrieb Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Why Hatari GEMDOS HD file handles are limited to max 32?
> https://github.com/hatari/hatari/blob/master/src/gemdos.c#L116
> 
> (That limit has been there since you added Hatari code to CVS in 2001.)

That's code that has been taken from WinSTon ... I assume it's an arbitrary
value that was working for most programs at that point in time?

> I'm asking because I came across program needing more than 32 GEMDOS HD 
> handles.

Wow, which program was this? And do you know how many handles it needs?

> And because EmuTOS limit is 75 handles (+ 6 standard handles):
> https://github.com/emutos/emutos/blob/master/bdos/fs.h
> 
> Leaving 64 handles to TOS (same as now), and increasing GEMDOS handles 
> from 32 e.g. to 64 should be fine, right?

No clue, but I assume it should be ok as long as we keep the
maximum handle below 128, in case a badly written program tries to store the
handles in a signed byte only.

 Thomas