Re: [lwip-devel] Removing the restriction on number of sockets

[Stian Skjelstad]

On Aug 11, 2017 09:46, "Joan Lledó" <address@hidden> wrote:

> In an RTOS, where you have multiple networking applications (which would
> typically be their own processes on Linux) but each are simply threads in
> the same process space, now a thread’s first call to socket() could return
> an FD larger than what FD_SETSIZE can hold rather than 0.  This would
> require modifying all applications to expect FDs that couldn’t fit within
> fd_set even when they are only using a small number of sockets
>

That's really bad, and I don't know how to solve it, Does anyone here
have any ideas?

Add support for poll(), which does not have this design issue in the API

Stian