Re: __FD_SETSIZE question

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 6 Nov 2001 18:44:46 +0000 (GMT)


> 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?

It did long ago. Nowdays its limited by proc tunable variables - you do
however want to use poll() not select()
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