From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 9 10:52:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06446 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:52:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ics.com (ics.com [140.186.40.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06441 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:52:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kaleb@ics.com) Received: from ics.com (sunoco.ics.com [140.186.40.142]) by ics.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id NAA28333 Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:51:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <364739CA.524190C4@ics.com> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 13:51:54 -0500 From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting more than FD_SETSIZE fd's References: <199811091830.NAA24229@lakes.dignus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > No external libraries are used except for Motif. I'm not sure if it > > uses Select, but I doubt it. In any case, I'm still defaulting to a > > larger limit, which is still not a great solution. > > I believe you'll find that X11 (on which Motif is based) does use > select(). Since X11R6(.0) Xlib and Xt in the Sample Implementation use poll if the system has it, otherwise they use select. It is a given, that if you're using Motif, you are also using Xt and Xlib; thus you are using either select or poll. -- Kaleb S. KEITHLEY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message