[GRASS-user] Combining Rasters Help

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:38:58AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> > > You need to recompile to change the upper limit; both libgis and
> > > r.patch have their own limits. Even if you do that, 4400 open files
> > > may exceed limits imposed by the OS.
> > 
> > Curiosity:
> > Would it makes sense to unify these different limits into
> > a single one (gis.h or so)? Also xganim is affected and others.
> > From a user perspective it would be less confusing. 
> 
> It would be better to just do away with the limits, i.e. change
> G__.fileinfo from an array to a pointer and dynamically re-allocate it
> as necessary. Similarly for individual modules.

Sounds good but it's beyond my C knowledge.
So let's hope for a volunteer.

Markus