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Minimum Values for General Capacity Limits
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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_AIO_LISTIO_MAX'
     The most restrictive limit permitted by POSIX for the maximum
     number of I/O operations that can be specified in a list I/O call.
     The value of this constant is `2'; thus you can add up to two new
     entries of the list of outstanding operations.

`_POSIX_AIO_MAX'
     The most restrictive limit permitted by POSIX for the maximum
     number of outstanding asynchronous I/O operations.  The value of
     this constant is `1'.  So you cannot expect that you can issue
     more than one operation and immediately continue with the normal
     work, receiving the notifications asynchronously.

`_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'.