On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 03:30:21PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 02.06.21 19:21, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Hi, > > > Not really, once one thing in an applicate uses a large number FDs the > > entire application is effected. If any open() can return 'very big > > number' then nothing in the process is allowed to ever use select. > > isn't that a bug in select() ? <shrug> it is what it is, select has a fixed size bitmap of FD #s and a hard upper bound on that size as part of the glibc ABI - can't be fixed. Jason
