Shibboleth Developers

[Derek Atkins <>]

Scott Cantor 
<>
 writes:

> Google is a wonderful thing...
> 
> http://www.netsys.com/sunmgr/1996-11/msg00082.html
> 
> So, the interesting thing is that it looks like Sun RPC in general is not
> going to do too well if the number of raised, at least if the svc_fdset
> global descriptor set is used, which we do.
> 
> Now, of course, on Sun, we're using our own build of SunRPC, so we could
> just modify the code to use FD_SETSIZE instead of asking the kernel, and it
> will work fine. That's not a general fix though, since I'd imagine Linux
> would also fail if the limit was raised, and recompiling RPC there isn't
> real attractive for users.

Well, linux might deal better -- I haven't looked at the RPC code on Linux,
but it's handling of fd_set may be better than Sun's...  Not sure.

> -- Scott

-derek

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