python select() is limited to fds < 64

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue Mar 22 23:45:00 GMT 2011


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:53:34PM +0100, V??clav Haisman wrote:
>Jon TURNEY wrote, On 22.3.2011 20:29:
>> 
>> python seems to be built with the default value of FD_SETSIZE, which is only
>> 64 on cygwin.
>Is this not because of the inherent limitation of WaitForMultipleObjects() call?

Yep.  Without a rewrite, it's a hard limit to Cygwin's select().

cgf

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