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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!geneva.rutgers.edu!hedrick
  2. From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: new select
  5. Message-ID: <Nov.13.03.57.11.1992.19564@geneva.rutgers.edu>
  6. Date: 13 Nov 92 08:57:12 GMT
  7. Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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  10. I haven't tried 0.98 yet, but I'm surprised at the reports of problems
  11. with 0.98pl4 caused by increasing the number of open files.  The
  12. select interface was designed so that you could increase the number of
  13. open files without messing up old programs.  That's why select takes
  14. the number of file descriptions as an argument.  Even if the kernel
  15. now supports 256 files, if a program calls select with 32 or less, why
  16. doesn't it behave in the old way?  If such programs really break, it's
  17. going to cause all kinds of compatibility problems.  Is it really
  18. necessary?
  19.