Re: big-* patches and FD_SET()

[Uwe Ohse]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:58:20AM +0200, Toens Bueker wrote:

> ./chkspawn
> Oops. Your system's FD_SET() has a hidden limit of 1024 descriptors.

edit qmail-1.03/conf-spawn, set the value to a number less then or 
equal to 509.

 
> How can I increase this 'hidden limit'? 

You can try what is described in /usr/include/sys/select.h, but i
don't know whether this will do something good: The C library 
might know too much about the 1024 internally.

Regards, Uwe