From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams@extremeeng.com>
Cc: 'eCos Discussion' <ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] select () confusion
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:05:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B69CE88.1137051E@redhat.com>
References: <000601c11b9d$e8012890$090110ac@TRENT>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00085.html

"Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
> 
>   > Yes. Normally you track the largest fd you've ever had, or keep a
> list
>   > of
>   > fds. Or just use FD_SETSIZE if you're lazy IIRC.
>   >
> 
> IIRC?

If I recall correctly.

> I personally like the windows, BSD *compatible*, select better.  The
> first parameter is there only for compatibility.

Yeah, that's because the reason it was there originally was for efficiency,
and we know that's not relevant for Windows ;).

>  Since FD_SET always
> increments the fd count anyhow, I don't see a point in even using the
> first parameter.

Eh? FD_SET doesn't change the value of the highest fd you will be selecting
on, or the number of fds you have. It just sets a bit in a bitmask (the
fdset).

Jifl
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