file descriptor - Windows equivalent of ulimit -n

Question

What is the windows equivalent of the unix command " ulimit -n" ?

Basically, i want to set the maximum fd limit via command prompt.

Answer 1

I don't believe that current Windows O/S have a limit on the total number of file descriptors, but the MS runtime library (msvcrt.dll) has a per process limit of 2048, albeit as far as I know that's not enforced by the O/S.

It can allegedly be increased only by building your own version of the MS runtime library from source.