Re: Problem with > 1024 file descriptors

[Rich Salz]

There are some popular operating systems that don't let you do
        FILE* fp = fdopen(getdtablesize(), "r")
:)  Those are buggy C libraries -- even Sun has said it's a bug, just
that they weren't going to fix it.

The question is how much work is involved for OpenSSL to be able to work
around those bugs?  A quick grep for fopen and fdopen shows a handful of
places, and for BIO_new_file shows a few more.

I'd suggest that all fopen and fdopen calls be replaced with BIO's, and
that bio/bss_file.c be rewritten to use file descriptors, not FILE*'s,
perhaps as a compile-time option.  (This would also remove the FILE* and
win32 DLL issues)
Anyone looking for a reasonable fgets-style interface on top of
open/read can find in on INN... :)
        /r$
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