On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Sean Hamilton wrote: > What is the first parameter to select(2) for? Microsoft's select ignores it, > and it does not appear to have any valid use since it only allows > constraints on values which are assigned by the system. > > Purely historic?
Winsock uses the integer array for fd_set instead of the bit array as Unices do. Winsock socket's numbers are big enough, for example I saw on NT as first created socket has number 96 and second has 42. Bitmask is not effective for such numbers. Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
