Re: fork: out of memory

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:04:53 +0000 (GMT)


> Due to select() braindamage, nr. of files you can used at once is
> defined by size of structures around select(). Too bad. Unix just _is_
> broken, somewhere.

Not now. The BSD people screwed up a little (tho to be fair you can use
select with dynamic fd_set allocations its just horrible) but the SYS5
people invented poll() instead. Fortunately you can use poll without having
system5 streams, something which is much harder to forgive than a minor
oversight in select