* Sascha Schumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010616 19:03] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> one of my applications uses the SGI State Threads Library
> (I/O multiplexing scheduler). At its heart is a function
> which concatenates the pollfd arrays of all threads and calls
> poll(2). As sockets are shared between threads, the size of
> the final pollfd array can easily be greater than
> RLIMIT_NOFILE.
Are you sure?
#define RLIMIT_NOFILE 8 /* number of open files */
That would mean that the pollfd array is larger than the amount
of open files you're allowed. I think it may be a good idea to
actually allow double RLIMIT_NOFILE and FD_SETSIZE for flexibility.
Anyone object?
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