On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Jonathan Stone wrote:

: >UINT_MAX.
: 
: >> (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.
: 
: But to achieve the underlined part with the extant sockets codebase,
: you need to make SOMAXCONN be UINT_MAX.
: 
: So then we _need_ yet another option, to set the default upper limit
: actually enforced by listen() to something sane.  (where "sane" is
: possibly arch-dependent).   Like the knobs Matt suggested.

Hum, that's not necessary; if an admin sets the limit too high, you get what
you asked for.  The sysctl will require uid 0 to change, of course.  ;)

Actually, UINT_MAX is wrong, though.  It should be INT_MAX as negatives are
a special case (and the arg is `int' anyway).

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)