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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:04:49 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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Subject: Re: __FD_SETSIZE question
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I heard the __FD_SETSIZE setting limits the number of open files to a
> process... Is this the fact? What happens if I double it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> roy

This just limits the number of fds you can use with select().
Use poll() instead.



Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).

    I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
    attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
    was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.


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