Re: select() stress

[Sparks, Jamie]

I'm using pine.

j

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

>   On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Sparks, Jamie wrote:
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>   Please don't use that goddam M$ mailer. I can't see what you
>   wrote without saving to a file, etc. Most use 'pine'  or
>   something compatible with __text__ !
>
>
>   Anyway you advised to do something like:
>
>   	fd = open("/", O_RDONLY);
>           close(fd);
>
>           fd is now supposed to contain the largest process fd + 1.
>           I don't think this is correct! You can do open thousands
>            of fds, ultimately more than the max fd value. It will
>           eventually wrap.
>
>
>   Cheers,
>   Dick Johnson
>   Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
>   Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.
>