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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:02:23 +0200, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> For what it's worth, it also makes code less portable.

On the other hand, it would also make libfetch useful in a larger
variety of applications; viz., those which have so many file
descriptors open that the one used by libfetch will overflow the
default fd_set.

-GAWollman


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