--- gpm-1.19.2/special.c.openmax	Mon Jan 17 16:34:00 2000
+++ gpm-1.19.2/special.c	Fri Jun 30 10:49:40 2000
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
       open("/dev/null",O_RDONLY); /* stdin  */
       open("/dev/tty0",O_WRONLY); /* stdout */
       dup(1);                     /* stderr */
-      for (i=3;i<OPEN_MAX; i++) close(i);
+      for (i=3;i<sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX); i++) close(i);
       execl("/bin/sh","sh","-c",command,(char *)NULL);
       exit(1); /* shouldn't happen */