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diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in index e9e2215ffe..859586dbb7 100644 --- a/FAQ.in +++ b/FAQ.in @@ -848,14 +848,12 @@ 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 |