Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 17:57:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: listen() and SOMAXCONN? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808021757220.230-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199808030051.UAA21748@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:47:18 -0700 (PDT), Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> said: > > > defined in sys/socket.h. A quick check of the man page informs me that I > > should use the MIB kern.somaxconn. Well, I checked the header files, and > > SOMAXCONN is defined to 128 in sys/socket.h, and there is no > > kern.somaxconn MIB. Any thoughts? > > Under FreeBSD, you should use -1. The MIB variable is in the kern.ipc > subtree. For portability, you should be prepared to use SOMAXCONN on > other systems. (It's easy to imagine an autoconf test which would > determine whether -1 works or not, or you could just do it at run > time.) Ahh, quite nifty indeed. Thanks :) - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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