Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:58:45 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: poll function in cygwin Message-ID: <20020827115845.U5475@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <20020827111431.T5475@cygbert.vinschen.de> <777081412.20020827132703@logos-m.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <777081412.20020827132703@logos-m.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:27:03PM +0400, Egor Duda wrote: > Hi! > > Tuesday, 27 August, 2002 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/