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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: No more signals
Message-ID: <7188@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 01:26:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.7188
Posted: Wed Jun 24 01:26:33 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 06:27:26 EDT
References: <48300005@hcx1> <1207@ius2.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1207@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
>... 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.

Funny you should mention that. . . .

If you muck around with the 4.2BSD kernel, you are wasting your
time; the 4.3BSD kernel is considerably cleaner.  The only big
uglies left to fix are the VM system and the file system interface.
In particular, select works on more than 32 file descriptors.
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