Re: Remote EOF and MinGW builds

[Keisial <keisial@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > As far as I know poll() and select() offer the same functionality.
> > Select() needs a little more memory than poll(), but it is way more
> > platform independent. Thus I've adopted the library to use select().
> > This makes the files "poll.h" and "poll.c" obsolete.
> >      
> Select can only handle a limited number of handles. This limit is defined by
> the operating system and differs. On Linux the limit is 1024 handles and on
> Windows it is 64. A lot of people work with more handles than 64 and some even
> with more than 1024.
>
> So we need to fix the poll-emulation.
>
>
> Cheers,
>    
The limit can be increased (both on Linux and Windows) by defining 
FD_SETSIZE
before the #include
The problem with select is that it's inefficient for a large number of 
sockets.