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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