On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Jonathan Stone wrote:

: That's the problem: recompiling _everything_. Most other unix variants
: for today's hardware ship with FD_SETSIZE (in libc, the rpc library,
: named ...) already set to 1024.

AFAIK, there's nothing in libc other than rpc which is affected by
FD_SETSIZE, and rpc is fixed in stone unless we __RENAME() its symbol
through use of a pointer.  (The copy reloc problem, similar to the one
encountered with sys_errlist.)

What I haven't seen yet in this thread is a reason to bump this number up
in a global location, as opposed to one-offs for specific, network-heavy
programs.

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)