Ben Greear wrote:

> This will work just fine for the vast majority of applications, especially
> on Linux where select handles 1024 sockets by default.

In my application, I frequently have several thousand open file handles
(8k+).

I've suggested this before, why not just use something like libevent
which has already figured this out and can use epoll, /dev/poll/,
kqueue, etc?

http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

-- 
Brian Akins
Lead Systems Engineer
CNN Internet Technologies