On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:24:28PM -0500, Scott Dial wrote: > Tim Peters wrote: > >No more than it had been jarred ;-) Well, a bit more: it was > >possible to pass a first argument to select() that was larger than > >FD_SETSIZE. In effect, FD_SETSIZE had no meaning. >
> any relevance to any platform other than Linux. I am no portability > guru, but I have to think there are other platforms where this patch > will cause problems. For now at least, can we at least do some > preprocessing magic to not use this code with Windows? I doubt it will have problems on other platforms. As Tim said, FD_SETSIZE is mandated by POSIX. Perhaps some platforms do allow larger sizes, by replacing the FD_* macros with functions that dynamically grow whatever magic is the 'fdset' datatype. I sincerely doubt it's a common approach, though, and for them to be POSIX they would need to have FD_SETSIZE set to some semi-sane value. So at worst, on those platforms (if any), we're reducing the number of sockets you can actually select() on, from some undefined platform maximum to whatever the platform *claims* is the maximum. -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread! _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
