Re: Does thread share FD?

[John Vetterli <jvetterli linux ca>]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, [gb2312] 顺珉 吴 wrote:
> I am using gthread to create a multi-thread
> program.Every thread will open many sockets, and I use
> select() to handle them.
> Now I find in linux, a fd_set could only accept 1024
> fd.
> The number of sockets one thread open can be
> restricted, but if all threads in a process share the
> same fd number, 1024 is too small for me.

You may be able to increase this limit.

man 2 setrlimit
        or
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Limits-on-Resources.html

HTH
JV