On Tue, 6 May 1997 19:31:07 +0100 
 Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk> wrote:

 > After some searching, we've managed to work out that the cause of
 > Apache failing to start when we add a new virtual server is that
 > 'select' is a pretty badly designed call ;-).

...are you using NetBSD-current?

 > Anyway, the real question is: can I just edit /usr/include/types.h,
 > increase FD_SETSIZE to 1024, recompile the kernel, and expect
 > everything to work? Do I need to compile anything else? (e.g. shared
 > c libraries, etc.)

...existing libraries compiled with old FS_SETSIZE won't deal.  -current
can deal with a fd sets larger than FS_SETSIZE.  NetBSD-current also has
a properly-implemented poll(2) system call which doesn't have these limits.

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