On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Christos Zoulas wrote: > In article <20121130134954.ga14...@britannica.bec.de>, > Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de> wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 08:34:27AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote: > >> | fd_set doesn't seem like an appropriate structure for this. > >> > >> I've been thinking about creating something more efficient, but I didn't > >> come > >> up with something better and decided that using fd_set was less complex. > > > >A plain bitmap is ok for this purpose. Something like: > > > >static uintptr_t inet4_reserve[65536 / sizeof(uintptr_t) / CHAR_BITS]; > > Sure, but then I would have to rewrite or open code the access macros. > I think that it would be a lot nicer to have a more general "fdset" that > could be included multiple times, and provided the access macros.
well, there is bitstring(3) ..? iain