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From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <lavr@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Typo in <sys/select.h>?
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 15:11:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM8PR09MB7095676B0B8468FEE2C628C8A5819@DM8PR09MB7095.namprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)

> I'm no expert, but it seems the FD_SETSIZE should have been 128.
> Long is 8 bytes, 64 bits. One bit if one open file, 64 * 64 = 4096.

FD_SETSIZE is the file descriptor bitset capacity in _BITS_.

64 (as currently in there) means 1 int (on 64 bit platforms, or 2 ints on 32 bit
platforms, respectively), and is capable of representing 64 file descriptors by
default.

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI

             reply	other threads:[~2022-07-05 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-05 15:11 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-07-06 15:57 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-07-06 17:03 ` Ken Brown
2022-07-06 14:26 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-07-06 15:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-07-06 14:17 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-07-06 13:19 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-07-06 14:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-07-05 14:13 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-07-05 14:55 ` Andrey Repin
2022-07-05 21:51 ` Ken Brown
2022-07-06  7:42   ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-07-06 14:01     ` Jon Turney
2022-07-06 14:15       ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-07-06 14:22         ` Corinna Vinschen

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