From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
Date: 2010-04-09T05:51:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:29360] Re: [Bug #3106] Out-of-bounds on fd_set

> Should ruby not check for FDSETSIZE and refuse to use files whose fds are beyond this? (This limitation could be removed later if ruby ever moved to poll/epoll/kpoll)

I think so.  In windows on trunk it just resizes the fd_set on the
fly.  If this isn't possible in Linux, it should raise with "EINVAL"
or something (or maybe something more descriptive, like EWOULDNOTFIT).
But that's just my $0.02