Re: Raising number of file handles per process

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:32:28 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:51:12 +0000, "Stephen D. WIlliams" <sdw@lig.net> said:

> What else is needed for a select based program? Rebuild glibc after
> changing the include directive?

You really want to move to poll. Using select, you'll still have to
roll your own FD_SET with increased capacity, but otherwise the
library shouldn't object too much (at least in glibc-2.1; 2.0 has a
number of rpc bugs if give it too many fds).

--Stephen

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