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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1999-08-02 19:56:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1999-08-02 19:56:07 +0000 |
| commit | 249fd241a225b3b3723e55f7051ed4c7bf726e78 (patch) | |
| tree | dca2d8bc5e471a1204af4f506a2b3a9df5dd16bc /FAQ | |
| parent | ff5fad1641bbd3b76501e01467b179c6aa6421b8 (diff) | |
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Update.
1999-08-02 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> * nis/nis_callback.c (internal_nis_do_callback) use poll() instead of select(). 1999-08-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/generic/s_nextafter.c: Define __nexttoward and nexttoward so something else so that aliasing works. 1999-08-02 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> * sysdeps/generic/math_ldbl.h: Fix typo. * sysdeps/generic/strtold.c: Remove unbalanced #endif. * sysdeps/alpha/fpu/e_sqrt.c: Use new path for e_sqrt.c. 1999-08-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * elf/resolvfail.c: Include stdio.h. Also test dlerror.
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diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index d412f8e0b8..5dcc1bcf19 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -1048,14 +1048,12 @@ files. You don't necessarily need to recompile the GNU C library since the only place where OPEN_MAX and FD_SETSIZE is really needed in the library itself is the size of fd_set which is used by select. -The GNU C library is now (nearly) select free. This means it internally has -no limits imposed by the `fd_set' type. Instead almost all places where the +The GNU C library is now select free. This means it internally has no +limits imposed by the `fd_set' type. Instead all places where the functionality is needed the `poll' function is used. If you increase the number of file descriptors in the kernel you don't need -to recompile the C library. The remaining select calls are in the RPC code. -If your RPC daemons don't need more than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors, you -don't need to change anything at all. +to recompile the C library. {UD} You can always get the maximum number of file descriptors a process is allowed to have open at any time using |