Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/08/27/05:58:59
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:27:03PM +0400, Egor Duda wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Tuesday, 27 August, 2002 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com wrote:
>
> CV> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:33:40PM +0700, Nguyen Minh Sang wrote:
> >> On cygwin, function:
> >> int poll(struct pollfd *ufds, unsigned int nfds, int timeout);
> >>
> >> The maximum of nfds = ?
>
> CV> Theoretically there is no maximum. In practice the maximum is a
> CV> function of the memory available.
>
> I was thinking that maximum number of handles which can be waited via
> WaitForMultipleObjects() is 64, thus limiting a number of handles that
> can be select()ed. It's probably possible to work around such
> limitation in cygwin select() but either i've missed something or no
> such workaround was created in cygwin code.
Ahem, no, you're right.
Corinna
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