[New-bugs-announce] [issue4609] Allow use of > 256 FD's on solaris in 32 bit mode

[Peter Saunders]

New submission from Peter Saunders <pajs at fodder.org.uk>:

Feature Request:

Could configure etc be modified to detect if it can use
enable_extended_FILE_stdio() to allow solaris to use > 256 FD's while
still be compiled 32 bit. This is a new feature in Solaris 10 (came in
Update 4). 

Some futher infomation on this:

http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/stdio_256.html  (Scroll to
"Programming Solutions")

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2243/enable-extended-file-stdio-3c?a=view

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 77410
nosy: pajs at fodder.org.uk
severity: normal
status: open
title: Allow use of > 256 FD's on solaris in 32 bit mode
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6

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