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Subject: Re: upcoming version suggestions
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:44:07 +0300 (MSK)
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In-Reply-To: <199702121241.XAA16078@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 12, 97 11:41:50 pm
From: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su>
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> >to something like 1024, - then you don't need to recompile kernel as

It was kind of a typo, - I Re:'d myself in a while. 
What I mean is that any change of default FDSETSIZE in kernel means us
to recompile user binaries.


> restricted to the old value of FDSETSIZE (256).  This can't be fixed
> without breaking binary compatibility :-(.

What I suggest is to check if there is a possibility to set fdsetsize
to 1024 in distributions, and, of course, have binaries of the system
to know about that 1024.

> Bruce

-mishania