That's because struct fd_set, which is manipulated by FD_SET, is a
struct that contains a fixed-size array.
Moriyoshi
Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> Can someone explain why ext/sockets and also stream socket functions
> care about FD_SETSIZE?
>
> # define PHP_SAFE_FD_SET(fd, set) do { if (fd < FD_SETSIZE) FD_SET(fd,
> set); } while(0)
>
> On Linux, it's not a hard limitation imposed by the kernel. It's
> configurable via sysctl.
>
> -Andrei
>
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