Re: 2.2.0 ac1

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
28 Jan 1999 23:02:51 +0100


"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> writes:
>
> No, but there are some problems to be aware of: in particular, glibc
> does not cope entirely gracefully with large numbers of fds.

It used not to, but it does now.

> Specifically, rpc breaks if you increase the open-files rlimits, and you
> will need to define your own, larger fd_set structures if you want to
> use select on fds above 1024.
>
That's almost, but not quite, wrong for glibc 2.1 (due to be released
Real Soon Now -- next week, probably), since amlost everything has been
converted to use poll() instead. In fact, the only remaining calls to
select() are in svc_run() and nis_do_callback(), which is definitely
Not A Problem unless you open a thousand files, don't close any of them,
and _then_ suddenly decide you want to be a RPC server. ;-)

Anyway, you'll certainly have a _lot_ fewer problems than with libc5. :-/

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