From 0155a7737f5653e07015421b962b70fd8831c4ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:42:34 +0000 Subject: Update. 1998-11-25 Ulrich Drepper * version.h (VERSION): Bump to 2.0.104. 1998-11-25 Mark Kettenis * libio/bits/stdio.h (fread_unlocked): Add missing parentheses around parameter n. 1998-11-24 Andreas Schwab * time/tzfile.c (__tzfile_read): Fix comment. 1998-11-24 Andreas Schwab * Makerules (build-shlib): Pass -O1 down to linker to get optimized shared libraries. 1998-11-24 Andreas Schwab * Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)sysd-dirs): Cope with no Subdirs file. Strip "-" from inhibited subdir name. Combine into a single awk program. ($(common-objpfx)sysd-sorted): Fix sed command. --- FAQ.in | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) (limited to 'FAQ.in') diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in index c15611d672..0da19611cc 100644 --- a/FAQ.in +++ b/FAQ.in @@ -776,6 +776,33 @@ If you need nscd, you have to use a 2.1 kernel. Note that I have at this point no information about any other platform. +?? I need lots of open files. What do I have to do? + +{AJ} This is at first a kernel issue. The kernel defines limits with +OPEN_MAX the number of simultaneous open files and with FD_SETSIZE the +number of used file descriptors. You need to change these values in your +kernel and recompile the kernel so that the kernel allows to use more open +files. You don't necessarily need to recompile the GNU C library since the +only place where OPEN_MAX and FD_SETSIZE is really needed in the library +itself is the size of fd_set which is used by select. + +The GNU C library is now (nearly) select free. This means it internally has +no limits imposed by the `fd_set' type. Instead almost all places where the +functionality is needed the `poll' function is used. + +If you increase the number of file descriptors in the kernel you don't need +to recompile the C library. The remaining select calls are in the RPC code. +If your RPC daemons don't need more than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors, you +don't need to change anything at all. + +{UD} You can always get the maximum number of file descriptors a process is +allowed to have open at any time using + + number = sysconf (_SC_OPEN_MAX); + +This will work even if the kernel limits change. + + ? Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them ?? I expect GNU libc to be 100% source code compatible with -- cgit v1.2.3