suggested fix for the sigchld race

[Nicolas Williams]

Right. I'm on Solaris. I don't care :)

On Solaris I have to live with the 256 fildes limit in stdio (32-bit)
and the artificial 1024 fildes limit in select(3c).

Nico


On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:18:19PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:33:38PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > The extra file descriptors needed should not be a problem, I don't
> > think. Why did you list that as a disadvantage?
> 
> if you have 1000 running sshds on your system you need
> additional 2000 filedescriptos in your kernel.
> 
> -m
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