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From: dlr@hpcndm.CND.HP.COM (Dominic Ruffatto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-UX 7.03 and RPC's svc_fdset
Message-ID: <1730082@hpcndm.CND.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 91 16:15:04 GMT
References: <31100001@inmet>
Organization: HP Colorado Networks Division
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> Does anyone know why HP didn't use the fd_set type for svc_fdset?

In the standard 6.5 and 7.?? releases of HP-UX only 60 file descriptors were 
allowed per process (<2 ints of bits).  full_fd_set was used in 6.5 and there 
was no major need to change for 7.??. 

> Could someone running HP-UX 7.05 look in <rpc/svc.h> 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,

You will find the same header file for 7.?? releases.  

In 8.?? support for 1K file descriptors for mortal users and 2K file 
descriptors for root is provided.  fd_set is expanded and svc_fdset uses
the fd_set type.

Dom