> However, discussing this shows how irrelevant the actual default value > of FD_SETSIZE is.
Correct, yet the comments in the header files (along with used values) should be consistent :-) > [...] to define FD_SETSIZE according to its requirements anyway. That'd work for CYGWIN right away; but won't for glibc (because FD_SETSIZE is not used in the actual type definition, but __FD_SETSIZE), so there comes the array trick shown earlier. Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple