From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 20 15:47:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA29660 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA29648 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id QAA29934; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:46:29 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA20181; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:47:04 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:47:03 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko To: John Polstra cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache 1.1.3 and 1.2.0 problems under FBSD2.2.2 In-Reply-To: <199706202218.PAA15225@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Grr. Sigh, sorry... too much Solaris on my brain. I wrote short without thinking short. Thanks. Now I have to figure out the real reason it breaks. There appears to be no problems on BSD/OS. Something doesn't like having a lot of fds... On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, John Polstra wrote: > In article , > Marc Slemko wrote: > > > > Grr. I thought this had been fixed in FreeBSD, but I guess not. > > The problem here is that the FILE structure uses only a short for > > _file, which means it can only handle 255 fds. > > Er ... that's a mighty strange "short" you've got there, if it can only > hold a number up to 255. Maybe you should upgrade to a 32-bit machine. :-) > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth >