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From: lm@cottage.WISC.EDU (Larry McVoy)
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Subject: Re: No more signals
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Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 13:47:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 22 13:47:57 1987
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In article <1207@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
$   Another Unix function that I see having problems is "select".  If you
$ decide to muck around with the kernal and increase the max number of 
$ file descriptions to more than the number of bits in an integer then
$ your going to have problems using select to do multiplexing since
$ it uses an int as a bit mask for the files examined.

Not anymore it doesn't.  They use an array.  You can have as many bits as
there are fds.  This is in 4.3+NFS Wisconsin Unix - I dunno about the rest 
of the world.

Larry McVoy 	        lm@cottage.wisc.edu  or  uwvax!mcvoy