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Author	amaury.forgeotdarc
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, neologix, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2011-06-10.11:47:15
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Message-id	<1307706436.72.0.858919606166.issue12287@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I don't understand if socket file descriptors are different than > (classic) file descriptors. On Windows, sockets are completely independent from file descriptors. A socket id can be large (typically over 1000), fortunately a fd_set is not indexed by descriptors; FD_SET just appends the socket descriptor to the array; there is a limit of 64 sockets, but no limit on the value of a descriptor.

> I don't understand if socket file descriptors are different than
> (classic) file descriptors.

On Windows, sockets are completely independent from file descriptors.

A socket id can be large (typically over 1000), fortunately a fd_set is not indexed by descriptors; FD_SET just appends the socket descriptor to the array; there is a limit of 64 sockets, but no limit on the value of a descriptor.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-06-10 11:47:16	amaury.forgeotdarc	set	recipients: + amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou, vstinner, neologix
2011-06-10 11:47:16	amaury.forgeotdarc	set	messageid: <1307706436.72.0.858919606166.issue12287@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-06-10 11:47:16	amaury.forgeotdarc	link	issue12287 messages
2011-06-10 11:47:15	amaury.forgeotdarc	create