Re: Thread implementations...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 00:22:53 +0100 (BST)


> perhaps being a kernel nazi here could help, basically have select(2) return
> EPERM or some such (EDONTBEADUMBASS) where more than say 1024 fd's are
> specified.

For select that basically has to occur.

> I've been playing with poll and it seems to work adequately and seems to
> scale better, but nothing too concrete yet (it compiles and runs, lets ship
> it).

If you like playing with poll fix glibc to use poll everywhere not select,
then you will have slain the library file size limit monster

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