[PATCH] Raise the number of FD on WIN32/CYGWIN as well

[Jon TURNEY]

On 26/08/2015 16:24, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>> The value of FD_SETSIZE for those targets in xserver's configure.ac:403
>> probably needs to be increased to match (See the comment on xserver
>> commit ed2c2a68)
>
> Yeah, well, I changed that already to 512 in commit d206c240 for consistency (in doubt, I tried to keep consistent).

Sorry, it seems I wasn't looking at the current git master.  That's fine.

In that case, your patch has my Reviewed-by:

>> (The default value of FD_SETSIZE for those targets is only 64)
>>
>> I'm somewhat sceptical that things work well with >64 clients on
>> those targets, but that's a different issue.
>
> I tried to search for this on ze interweb and found a few references
> (e.g. [1] [2]) that seem to indicate that, even if the default value
> is 64, it's possible to increase that limit. But other than that,
> I'll easily admit being quite clueless about Windows.
>
> That said, if the value for FD_SETSIZE from Xpoll.h in x11proto is of
> no use (if I understand correctly), we might as well remove it
> completely from Xpoll.h. But I suspect we'd rather keep things
> consistent, at least between the X server and x11proto, even if the X
> server code doesn't seem to make use of XFD_SETSIZE when WIN32 is
> set.

No idea.  But I think this header might be used by X clients as well.