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From: Eric Lammerts <eric@lammerts.org>
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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, John McCutchan wrote:
> Also the maximum number of devices that can be opened at a time is
> 8.

Why is that limit there? There doesn't seem to be any particular need
for it in the code... Why not remove watcher_count altogether?

Eric