Re: fork: out of memory

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
26 Nov 1997 03:31:59 GMT

Followup to: <19971125115246.40132@Elf.mj.gts.cz>
By author: Pavel Machek <pavel@Elf.mj.gts.cz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> No.
>
> Due to select() braindamage, nr. of files you can used at once is
> defined by size of structures around select(). Too bad. Unix just _is_
> broken, somewhere.
>

select() is fine.

The fd_set types and FD_* macros are NOT. If these had been pointers
with memory allocated out-of-sight to the user, then no problem (they
could have been sized dynamically at runtime.) I think a clean
source-compatible select() could actually be written in C++, but not
in C.

-hpa

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