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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-08-02 19:56:07 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-08-02 19:56:07 +0000
commit249fd241a225b3b3723e55f7051ed4c7bf726e78 (patch)
treedca2d8bc5e471a1204af4f506a2b3a9df5dd16bc /FAQ
parentff5fad1641bbd3b76501e01467b179c6aa6421b8 (diff)
downloadglibc-249fd241a225b3b3723e55f7051ed4c7bf726e78.tar.gz
Update.
1999-08-02 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> * nis/nis_callback.c (internal_nis_do_callback) use poll() instead of select(). 1999-08-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/generic/s_nextafter.c: Define __nexttoward and nexttoward so something else so that aliasing works. 1999-08-02 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> * sysdeps/generic/math_ldbl.h: Fix typo. * sysdeps/generic/strtold.c: Remove unbalanced #endif. * sysdeps/alpha/fpu/e_sqrt.c: Use new path for e_sqrt.c. 1999-08-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * elf/resolvfail.c: Include stdio.h. Also test dlerror.
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@@ -1048,14 +1048,12 @@ files. You don't necessarily need to recompile the GNU C library since the
only place where OPEN_MAX and FD_SETSIZE is really needed in the library
itself is the size of fd_set which is used by select.
-The GNU C library is now (nearly) select free. This means it internally has
-no limits imposed by the `fd_set' type. Instead almost all places where the
+The GNU C library is now select free. This means it internally has no
+limits imposed by the `fd_set' type. Instead all places where the
functionality is needed the `poll' function is used.
If you increase the number of file descriptors in the kernel you don't need
-to recompile the C library. The remaining select calls are in the RPC code.
-If your RPC daemons don't need more than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors, you
-don't need to change anything at all.
+to recompile the C library.
{UD} You can always get the maximum number of file descriptors a process is
allowed to have open at any time using