[GRASS-user] Combining Rasters Help

[Glynn Clements]

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.

I've changed this in the CVS head. As it's potentially destabilising,
I wouldn't recommend backporting it to 6.1.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>