OVDB Too many open files

[Russ Allbery]

Per Hedeland <per at erix.ericsson.se> writes:

> Innd is a heavy user of select(), and Bad Things will happen if you try
> to use fds > 1023 with select() pre Solaris 7... (perhaps this might
> even be the *cause* of your problems).

Yeah, if I recall correctly, the FD_*() macros will happily scribble all
over memory if you try to initialize an fd_set that's larger than 1024.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>