9.5.0-P2 and socket: too many open file descriptors

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:06:36 -0700,
"David Sparks" <dave at ca.sophos.com> wrote:

> > Also, don't forget the world is not just Linux.  Solaris requires a
> > compile time change to FD_SETSIZE, so it's very difficult to increase
> > the limitation 100% run-time.
> 
> Why not add a configure script to determine/configure maximum values for select()?

It's not that easy.  Sometimes the run-time maximum value depends on
the user credential (i.e., whether the process is run by the super
user), while the user who builds bind may (often) not have the
privilege.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.