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Date:      Sat, 21 Jun 1997 19:10:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca>
To:        Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gethostbyname() and fds >255 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95.970621190925.20160K-100000@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970621031533.21696N-100000@alive.znep.com>

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On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:
> 
> Guess I'll have to double check what else was broken when FD_SETSIZE
> was increased and make a patch for 2.2 that I can point people to.
> My biggest concern in this is that Apache 1.2 will not work with
> >~255 fds used for logs without recompiling libc with a larger
> FD_SETSIZE. 

    I believe someone just added that very problem to the Apache FAQ.
You will need to rebuild libc if your FD_SETSIZE is initially set to
256 to support more than 255 virtualhosts in Apache 1.2.
-- 
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"




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