[erlang-patches] [erlang-bugs] Lift limitation to FD_SETSIZE file descriptors on Mac OS X in erl_poll

[Pedram Nimreezi]

Yay now erlang respects ulimit's on crapples...

Nicely done!


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've written a patch that makes erl_poll uses _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT on
> Mac OS X. This constant makes select() work with more than FD_SETSIZE file
> descriptors, all that is needed is to manually manage the fd_set values.
>
> I've run port_SUITE.iter_max_ports test case and got a maximum of 2422
> ports instead of 502 before.
>
> Cc'ing Joel Reymont and Max Lapshin because I know they both encountered
> that problem.
>
>         git fetch https://github.com/nox/otp.git darwin-unlimited-select
>
>
> https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:maint...darwin-unlimited-select
>
> https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:maint...darwin-unlimited-select.patch
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Anthony Ramine
>
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