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

For really large numbers of sockets look into using a library like libevent.

The library can abstract several OS-specific advanced features like /dev/poll, kqueue, epoll, and event ports. With these you can handle really vast numbers of connections.