[asterisk-dev] select() and friends in Asterisk limit fd usage to 1024

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Moises Silva wrote:

> To fix this problem I see 2 possibilities. Either we get rid completely
> of select when poll is available (which is supposed to be a bit slower
> than select) or we to add a new compilation flag to allow users to
> decide, something like LOTS_OF_FDS, in such cases Asterisk would simply
> not use select and use poll in ast_select, and any place where select()
> is hard coded should be moved to use ast_select or some other wrapper.

I'd be fine with just switching to poll() for everything.

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