</para>
<para>
One most POSIX-compliant systems &my-app; can't properly deal with
- more than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors at the same time and has to reject
- connections if the limit is reached. This will likely change in a
- future version, but currently this limit can't be increased without
- recompiling &my-app; with a different FD_SETSIZE limit.
+ more than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors if &my-app; has been configured
+ to use select() and has to reject connections if the limit is reached.
+ When using select() this limit therefore can't be increased without
+ recompiling &my-app; with a different FD_SETSIZE limit unless &my-app;
+ is running on Windows with _WIN32 defined.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When &my-app; has been configured to use poll() the FD_SETSIZE limit
+ does not apply.
</para>
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