From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 19 9:12:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from crufty.research.bell-labs.com (crufty.research.bell-labs.com [204.178.16.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CA3937B422 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bronx.dnrc.bell-labs.com ([135.180.160.8]) by crufty; Tue Sep 19 12:11:49 EDT 2000 Received: from manojcpcho (manojc-pcho [135.180.233.225]) by bronx.dnrc.bell-labs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA10684 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:11:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <02d401c02254$ccc7d760$e1e9b487@dnrc.belllabs.com> From: "Manoj Chaudhari" To: Subject: select() system call Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:15:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_02D1_01C02233.457C1490" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_02D1_01C02233.457C1490 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, From Notes in man for select(): For historical reasons, select() will always examine the first 256 = descriptors. Has anybody corrected this ?? where can I get the patch ?? How good is select() system call in FreeBSD 3.5 and onwards ?? When FD_SETSIZE is really big like 32768. thanks=20 -Manoj ------=_NextPart_000_02D1_01C02233.457C1490 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

From Notes in man for = select():

For historical reasons, select() will = always=20 examine the first 256 descriptors.

Has anybody corrected this ?? where can = I get the=20 patch ??

How good is select() system call in = FreeBSD 3.5 and=20 onwards ??

When FD_SETSIZE is really big like 32768.

thanks

-Manoj

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