No, the limitation was imposed on XP strictly after SP2. Before that it
was limited to around 65000. Specifically this is supposed to only apply
to half open, or SYN, connections, but that hasn't been my experience.
Prior versions of winsock would attempt to open connections up to the
limit of the platforms idea of an unsigned word, just like XP used to
be. I thought I already stated that every security feature would disable
such a hack, and further I want to make it clear that including such a
thing in your software would be a massive liability waiting to happen.
I never suggested any use it, yet tons of people do. So, if he wants to
distribute to a large market share, Windows will likely come up. Vista
isn't likely to be any better.
MySQL also runs on Windows. And OS X. So, it's a good option regardless.
So is Postgres, which has the added benefit of being a company not run
by tards.
Later,
Fargo
dxGiodx wrote:
Hmmm,
My 2 cents. It has been my understanding from the beggining of XP and
other Win OS's that the desktop OS's have always had a 10 connection
limitation. Using patches/hacks to overcome a security
feature(according to MS) is a no no because every time there is a
patch, you will have to re-aply the hack which may not even work.
Since XP is not built for networked optimization in comparison to any
server version of the OS, why would you want to use any Win Desktop
OS's? There are tremendous benefit on using Server class OS's. If the
cost of ownership of the server class OS's is too much look in to a
Linux based solution.
If it is cost, use a Linux implementation as it will possibly require
less resources, less maintenance and cost the same for MySQL
licensing(incase is a commercial app).
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