From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 21 16:11:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA25045 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:11:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (taob@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca [207.181.89.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA25040 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (taob@localhost) by tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA20585; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 19:10:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 19:10:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Marc Slemko cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gethostbyname() and fds >255 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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"