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DateSat, 11 Jan 1997 00:06:36 -0500
From"David S. Miller" <>
SubjectRe: How to increat [sic.] max open files?
   From: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu
   Date: 7 Jan 1997 20:50:18 -0000
   David Miller:
   > This is a classic SMP problem.  Think about the things which UNIX
   > guarentees about the select() system call, now apply this to a
   > multiprocessor system.  Wheee...
   Which guarantees?

   Or rather, what does it mean that a file descriptor becomes available
   for _____ (reading, ...)?
I could be largely mistaken.  But last I checked many commercial
Unices guarenteed that when select returned stating that a file
descriptor could be read/written to, it was guarenteed to be done in a
non-blocking manner, and that applications do depend upon this very
behavior.

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