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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:32:25 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, dima@best.net
Subject: Re: FD_SETSIZE
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>> >> I didn't merge the kernel changes because they wouldn't have fixed a bug.
>> >
>> >Which one bug? Bug in select()?
>> 
>> No bug.  Never fix a working system.
>
>Well, I was under impression that it's not a bug fix, but rather an
>improvement :-) And there's nothing wrong with improving a working system.

I actually follow a slightly different rule: never fix more than one
version of a working system :-).

>Anyway, in lots of cases FD_SETSIZE defined to 256 is not enough.
>I thought, it would simply be smart to merge this change from
>-current, since it's been working over there for about a year now?

The userland change would give incompatible libraries according to
`zgrep fd_set /usr/share/man/man3/*'.  This didn't seem to cause any
problems in -current when the libc major wasn't bumped, but -stable
should be stabler.

Bruce

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