Joan Lledó, on sam. 15 juil. 2017 19:23:53 +0200, wrote: > installed on. Thus, pfinet was returning EPERM because it was > installed on /servers/socket/2, where my user wasn't the owner, while > lwip was installed on a file in my home.
Heh, yes, that's one of the "surprising" advantages of running a userland tcp/ip stack: when running it as a normal user, that user can configure it :) > Why would anybody need to change the default broadcast address of > her/his network? I haven't seen a case where it'd be useful > I increased the value to the amazing amount of 32, I hope the Hurd can > cope with it :P. That's still very low and will most probably pose problems. > Unfortunately, this problem doesn't seem to have a solution. Ew :/ Would LwIP maintainers really be against having an option to make this dynamic? > This made me wonder if there's a max number of sockets in other > systems. system-wide speaking, I don't think these usually is. Per process, there is the NOFILE limitation. One of the GNU/Hurd system goals is precisely to avoid these kinds of limitations anyway :) Samuel
