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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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Subject: FD_SETSIZE
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 23:39:21 +0100 (MET)
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Can someone explain me the way to deal with FD_SETSIZE nowadays?
>From looking at the sources it seems that the kernel is not limited
by whatever FD_SETSIZE is defined to. Is that correct?

Further, there is a comment on the new FD_SETSIZE being 1024 where
I still see FD_SETSIZE set to 256 in sys/types.h. Am I missing
something?

-Guido