From: Albert Dvornik <dvornik@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:14:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: [PATCH] compat: Add another rudimentary poll() emulation
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Erik Faye-Lund
<kusmabite@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>> Well, per your own FD_SET example, the FD_SETSIZE on windows
>> means different thing than FD_SETSIZE on old-style bitmap-based
>> select() implementation.

Yes, it sure does.  Once again, Windows seems to be a special, unique
snowflake. =)

>> On Unix, it's max fd number + 1, on windows it's max count.
>>
>
> Are you sure this applies for all Unix, not just some given Unix-y system?

While I can't make statements about "all UNIX" since there are many
obscure flavors, this is true on Linux, Solaris and various BSD
derivatives.  It's also what's specified by POSIX:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/select.html

--bert