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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:08:02 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        bakul@torrentnet.com (Bakul Shah), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Supporting more than FD_SETSIZE fd's
Message-ID:  <199811170508.WAA22595@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811170231.TAA05161@usr05.primenet.com>
References:  <199811162237.RAA02348@chai.torrentnet.com> <199811170231.TAA05161@usr05.primenet.com>

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> > > > Basically fd_set should have never been defined.
> > >
> > > Definitely agree.  But... it's *still* stupid to call select with
> > > a count that includes unallocated descriptors.
> > 
> > You are preaching to the converted :-)
> 
> Yah; just wanted to note that even though it should never have been
> defined, it having never been defined is not an excuse to do the
> wrong thing...
> 
> I think I'm familiar with the section of code that Nate is
> concerned with; I think by default that it does the wrong thing.

Huh?  The section of code that I'm concerned with uses Poll by default,
and has been modified to use select since FreeBSD 2.* don't have poll,
so I doubt your familiar with the code.  The JDK doesn't use select
unless you modify it to use select. :(


Nate

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