In message <Pine.NEB.4.21.0007041213360.26830-100000@server.int.duh.org>Todd Vi
erling writes
>On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Jonathan Stone wrote:

>
>Those are your apps, which have every right in the world to change
>FD_SETSIZE at its own whim.  The standards say that you could, if you want,
>make it 1048576!

named is not "my app".

>What you need to show to make this argument is a reasonable place in
>NetBSD-supplied binaries where this would be anything but a performance
>penalty.

How about you offer to start *reading* the argument, and drop the strawmen?
And how quatntitative an argument do you expect?
(how quantitativbe do you think the choice of 256 was?)