[erlang-questions] Increase the handle limit

[Joel Reymont]

Rickard,

I see no basis for your statement below. 

On Oct 24, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Rickard Green wrote:

> The "clipping" is there for a reason. Kernel-poll on MacOSX is implemented using kqueue(). Neither kqueue() nor poll() can handle all types of file-descriptors on MacOSX. The runtime system needs to be able to handle any type of file-descriptor that may appear.

Could this be old information that's no longer valid?

I just looked at the documentation for kqueue and poll and saw no restrictions on the type of file descriptor being handled. 

Poll has no restrictions whatsoever and kqueue has slightly different notification behavior depending on descriptor type.

	Thanks, Joel

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