From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-12-22T16:09:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20778] Re: how is 1.9 able to handle > 1024 sockets?

> select supports such fds on several Unixen including Linux,
> NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and HP-UX at least.

Interesting.  Perhaps there are differences among versions of linux, as well?