On July 29, 2004 02:20 pm, Joseph Bruni wrote: > The other thing I noticed was that (according to the man page for > select()) the results of the FD_ macros are undefined if the descriptor > value is greater than FD_SETSIZE, which is 1024 on my system. I find > this odd since the hard limit of the number of files any given process > can have open is kern.maxfilesperproc = 10240. Is this a limitation of > the POSIX API or could the man page for select() be wrong? Does anyone > have any insight into the proper use of select() if the descriptor > values are larger than FD_SETSIZE? Or maybe some other function that > replaces select() for programs with LOTS of descriptors?
I don't know which system you're runing, but perhaps you might have more luck with poll(2)? Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/ ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
