Andrei Zene <[email protected]> added the comment:
> Would it be possible to make FD_SETSIZE configurable at runtime, at least on
> Windows? IMHO it would be a better approach.
That would be awesome, but it doesn't look like it would be possible. As I have
already pointed out in my previous comment:
> I'm not sure this can be totally dynamic on Windows. The problem is the
> fd_set struct which is defined in Winsock2.h
>
> typedef struct fd_set {
> u_int fd_count; /* how many are SET? */
> SOCKET fd_array[FD_SETSIZE]; /* an array of SOCKETs */
> } fd_set;
>
> The heap-allocated pylists are converted into fd_set structs which are always
> allocated on the stack btw. The problem is there's no way to create a fd_set
> of a desired FD_SETSIZE at runtime.
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