The platform library routine fopen() can (on 32-bit Solaris at least) only
use file descriptors up to 255.
However the VM sets the files that can be opened by a JRE process
on Solaris to at least 1024.

These two limits conflict such that a Java program may open 256 files, then
perform some action which utilises fopen may needlessly fail.
The following cases should be rewritten to use open().

            FILE *fp = fopen(DUMP_FILE, "a"); /* append the latest */
./share/tools/hprof/hprof.c
            fp = fopen(output_filename, "w");
            fp = fopen(output_filename, "wb");
        prelude_fd = fopen(prelude_file, "r");
./share/tools/hprof/hprof_setup.c

    if ((temp_file = fopen(temp_file_name, "wb+")) == NULL ) {
        if ((result_file = fopen(filename, "rb")) == NULL) {
./share/tools/jcov/jcov_file.c

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This will be fixed in the new hprof in 1.5.
It will not use fopen.

-kto

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