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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:57:02 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bugs@freebsd.org, igor@turtle.kiev.ua
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A question concerning select(2)
Message-ID:  <199603250457.PAA24812@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>  The point is that I can increase maxfilesperproc but  cannot change
>FD_SETSIZE dynamically because the constant is hardcoded into the kernel
>and the implementation of select system call disallows to overrun it,
>and so I can get a descriptor which cannot be used by select.

>  Am I wrong ?

You're right.  This is an old bug.

Bruce



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