On 14 Apr 2016, at 10:09, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note that the limitation of select is on the actual fd value, not on > the number of fds. I happened to have a select() call with 2 input fds > and had occasional crashes to my program. The culprit was that overall > the program had many open fds and this particular code although it was > using 2 fds, they often happened to be over 1024. > > Note that this is not really about your example. I just wanted to rant > about it :) After my experience I've already convinced the manpages > maintainer to add a strong language against select() early in the man > page. Indeed. This is why, on reflection, it's probably worth me fixing it. -- Alex Bligh _______________________________________________ Gnutls-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnutls-help
