Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen wrote:
This is non-portable to new systems that doesn't have the non-standard getdtablesize() function, but implements the standard sysconf value.
That shouldn't be a problem, since the modules in question all depend on the getdtablesize module, which should supply the getdtablesize function on platforms that lack it. I expect the code is written in that strange way to minimize differences from glibc's implementation.