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diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/include/limits.h b/winsup/cygwin/include/limits.h
index 397ba2030..4a2ad3a8d 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/include/limits.h
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/include/limits.h
@@ -122,6 +122,13 @@ details. */
This limits how many children we can fork/spawn off. */
#define CHILD_MAX 63
+/* # of open files per process. Actually it can be more since Cygwin
+ grows the dtable as necessary. We define a reasonable limit here
+ which is returned by getdtablesize(), sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and
+ getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE). */
+#undef OPEN_MAX
+#define OPEN_MAX 256
+
/* POSIX values */
/* These should never vary from one system type to another */
/* They represent the minimum values that POSIX systems must support.