Re: 1024 file descriptors should be enough for anyone

[Po Lu]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>     Po> init_xterm must reject displays whose fds are larger than FD_MAXSIZE 
> on
>     Po> Lucid and Motif builds, since Xt uses pselect internally.  (I don't
>     Po> remember if XtOpenDisplay does that for you anymore.)

> xcb will check for exceeding FD_SETSIZE, but only when using 'select',
> and Xt will use 'poll' if itʼs available, so I donʼt think itʼs an
> issue.

Xlib may or may not be built with xcb, that's hardly a given.  (We only
know that's true when USE_XCB is defined.)  Likewise for Xt using
`poll', which is optional, and may or may not be how the user's
installation is built.