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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:58:45 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: poll function in cygwin
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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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