On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

: > : > (This will become the value of SOMAXCONN such that programs using the
: > : > macro will gain the higher limits without recompiling.)
: >                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^===================
: > : Leave SOMAXCONN at 128, I say.
: > 
: > Then what use is SOMAXCONN as it is defined in <sys/socket.h>?
: 
: On ordinary machines in ordinary circumstances it will be ordinarily
: useful.

Please explain.  If something is using SOMAXCONN, it wants the highest
number it can get.  If it gets a number which won't yield the
system-specified maximum, then that doesn't fulfill SOMAXCONN's purpose.
`Huh?'

: BTW, see Matt Thomas's post re: sominconn

That doesn't do exactly the same thing.

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