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Re: Allow customizing of __FD_SETSIZE
Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> You really have two options:
>
> (a) Design a way to handle larger fd_set that does not break ABI
>
> (b) Switch to using epoll.
>
> As it stands I don't think your bugzilla entry will ever be accepted
> by upstream because of the ABI issues.
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>
Or he could create an epoll wrapper with a select interface.
Knowing why he wants to use select here might be of use.