Shibboleth Developers

[Derek Atkins <>]

Scott Cantor 
<>
 writes:

> > 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.
> 
> I went looking for sources online, but didn't get very far (or look long).

Honestly I haven't looked much..  I'll do some research later.

> I found a note about Solaris that says RPC was fixed in 2.6 to stop using
> select(), but my guess is that doesn't mean they fixed the svc_fdset stuff,
> just the standard listener logic in the library that we're not using.

Yea, 2.6 is much newer than the rpc library we've got.  We can
probably fix the implementation to use poll() and stop using
svc_fdset, but I dont know if that would work on, say, Linux...

> Another note mentioned the option of defining FD_SETSIZE ahead of
> sys/select.h, but that's not very appealing to me.

Doesn't appeal to me, either.

> -- Scott

-derek

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