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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:31:46 +0000
From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: python select() is limited to fds < 64
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On 22/03/2011 20:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:53:34PM +0100, V??clav Haisman wrote:
>> Jon TURNEY wrote, On 22.3.2011 20:29:
>>>
>>> python seems to be built with the default value of FD_SETSIZE, which is only
>>> 64 on cygwin.
>> Is this not because of the inherent limitation of WaitForMultipleObjects() call?
> 
> Yep.  Without a rewrite, it's a hard limit to Cygwin's select().

Please read my email more closely.  I am not saying "python select() is
limited to waiting on 64 fds or less", I am saying "python select() is limited
to waiting on fd which are less than 64"

Admittedly, the test case isn't the clearest demonstration that this is a
problem, so here's an attempt to clarify:

$ cat select_test_2.py

from socket import *
from select import select

fds = []

for i in range(64):
    s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
    fds.append(s)
    print "selecting on fd", s.fileno()
    select([s], [], [], 0)

$ python select_test_2.py
selecting on fd 3
[...]
selecting on fd 64
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "select_test_2.py", line 11, in <module>
    select([s], [], [], 0)
ValueError: filedescriptor out of range in select()

The exception occurs on the attempt to wait on a single fd greater than 64.

Note that the python "filedescriptor out of range in select()" exception is
not an error being propagated from select().  Before python calls select() it
converts the sequence to a fd_set, verifying that each fd is less than
FD_SETSIZE, and raising this exception if it is not.

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