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To: Keith Seitz <keiths AT cygnus DOT com>, cgf AT redhat DOT com
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Subject: Re: bug in 1.3.3 2000/NT (probably socket()) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:46:30 PDT."
             <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 33 DOT 0110191430030 DOT 18666-100000 AT makita DOT cygnus DOT com> 
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:24:00 -0400
From: Eric Mandel <eric AT head-cfa DOT harvard DOT edu>


On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:26:41, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> >  width = getdtablesize();
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is your problem.
>
> This should be FD_SETSIZE.
> 
> You can't assume that getdtablesize() == FD_SETSIZE.

Thanks, I was using the Stone-Age Unix limit for select(), i.e., the
number of descriptors per process (p. 154 of Stevens' Unix Network
Programming). Old dogs, new tricks, I suppose.

Regards,

Eric




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