Variable: eshell-number-of-handles

eshell-number-of-handles is a customizable variable defined in esh-io.el.gz.

Value

3

Documentation

The number of file handles that eshell supports.

Currently this is standard input, output and error. But even all of these Emacs does not currently support with asynchronous processes
(which is what eshell uses so that you can continue doing work in
other buffers).

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/eshell/esh-io.el.gz
(defcustom eshell-number-of-handles 3
  "The number of file handles that eshell supports.
Currently this is standard input, output and error.  But even all of
these Emacs does not currently support with asynchronous processes
\(which is what eshell uses so that you can continue doing work in
other buffers)."
  :type 'integer
  :group 'eshell-io)