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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:32:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Bakul Shah <bakul@torrentnet.com>, nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Supporting more than FD_SETSIZE fd's
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9811161430460.12353-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
In-Reply-To: <199811162109.OAA03119@usr08.primenet.com>

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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Right.
> 
> The problem that normally occurs in naieve net code is this:
> 
> 	cnt = getdtablesize();
> 	select( cnt + 1, ...)
> 
> The UMICH LDAP server has code like this, and there's a *lot* of
> Linux code that operates like this, on the assumption that the
> getdtablesize() function will never return more than FD_SETSIZE
> number of descriptors.

  rxvt has (or had? I have sent a patch but never checked if it was
accepted) that problem, too.

--
Alex


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