Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!bu.edu!inmet!keenan From: keenan@inmet.inmet.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: HP-UX 7.03 and RPC's svc_fdset Message-ID: <31100001@inmet> Date: 11 Apr 91 14:41:00 GMT Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #N:inmet:31100001:000:863 Nf-From: inmet.inmet.com!keenan Apr 11 10:41:00 1991 RPC maintains a global variable named svc_fdset which is a bit mask of interesting file descriptors suitable for use in a select() call. On an HP 9000/375 running HP-UX 7.03 (info from uname -a), in , svc_fdset is declared as a full_fd_set, a structure containing an array of two ints, instead of using the fdset type defined in . In contrast to their names, fd_set's are twice as big as full_fd_set's. Does anyone know why HP didn't use the fd_set type for svc_fdset? Could someone running HP-UX 7.05 look in and let me know what svc_fdset looks like there? Any guesses about HP-UX 8? My email address is below and I'll keep my eyes on this group for a while. Thanks, --keenan ross keenan@inmet.inmet.com Intermetrics, Inc. uunet!inmet!keenan 733 Concord Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 PHONE: (617) 661-1840