select() max sockets

Question

Just more asynchronous stuff!

Alright, so I now have a working asynchronous socket program for my main chatting application, and it\'s working really well! However I

Answer 1

Yes, the FD_SETSIZE has a limit of 1024. You can easily check that by looking at the select.h header. People have tried to increase the limit, but the reports vary from "working" to "crashing" after a while. If you need that many connections, use poll instead.

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