Re: __FD_SETSIZE question

[Richard B. Johnson]

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

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