Re: FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 and FD_SETSIZE

Kaz.Tanaka@konica.co.jp wrote:

> >> it was done because, whilst a stock system < 2.2 (and the same
> >> applies to most BSD systems of around that vintage) will allow a
> >> large number of file descriptors per process, select() won't work
> >> with larger than 256 (exactly as the comment said) and Squid will
> >> break quite spectacularly.
>
> Same problem with BSDI 2.x. ( i think )

Yes, but 3.0 has no problem using > 256 file descriptors via select.
You just have to redefine FD_SETSIZE when compiling.

Evan