[PATCH 1 of 4] util: add a simple poll utility

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Jun 3 18:03:54 CDT 2015


On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 13:26 -0700, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
> +    if any(sys.maxint <= f for f in fds):
> +        raise NotImplementedError()

Also, I'm not sure why you're testing against maxint. The actual limit
is typically something like 2048, defined in FD_SETSIZE. And the reason
for the limit is that every possible file descriptor up to that limit is
represented as a bit in the input field. A bit vector with 2^64 bits is
indeed too large.

Modern interfaces like poll/epoll don't try to pass in all the
descriptors at once and thus don't run into these limits. 

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