Re: reached select() limit

On 01/31/2017 06:41 AM, eugeny gladkih wrote:
> no, that's not a truth. you may use any socket number on all modern UNIX
> systems. the only thing you need - you have to allocate enough memory
> for fd_set. one more thing you have to know is still here. on Solaris
> you may define the FD_SETSIZE preprocessor constant to any numer which
> is big enough.

I'd be careful of that in Linux. I have always been told that FD_SETSIZE
is fixed at the time of glibc compile. That may not be true of course,
and it may not be true for other C libraries.

I would certainly not assume that I can just redefine FD_SETSIZE without
double-checking.

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