From: Casper.Dik@Sun.COM   
      
   Rick Jones  writes:   
      
   >David Schwartz  wrote:   
   >> That's because of some serious design flaws in the 'select' API. The   
   >> kernel has two choices of how to implement 'select', and they both   
   >> suck.   
      
   >Well, it was sufficient for the time and conditions in which it was   
   >initially designed :) Which was well before the web, which more or   
   >less is when this issue got serious attention.   
      
   And long before processes could have more than 20 fds.   
      
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