2011/8/3 Corinna Vinschen: > $ python sel.py > socket opened with fd 3 > socket opened with fd 4 > socket opened with fd 5 > [...] > socket opened with fd 62 > socket opened with fd 63 > socket opened with fd 64 > socket opened with fd 64 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "test.py", line 10, in <module> > select(ins, [], [], 0) > ValueError: filedescriptor out of range in select() > > I debugged this and it turns out that python does not call Cygwin's > select function anymore, as soon as there's a file descriptor in the > set which is >= 64.
I have a similar limitation in postgresql, and I heard that this is based on a windows limitation, not any predefined constant. In postgresql I can max fork 63 worker childs, tested by a configure probe. -- Reini -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
