Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%rya-online.net@localhost>]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> In article <20121130134954.GA14008%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
> Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 08:34:27AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >> | fd_set doesn't seem like an appropriate structure for this.
> >>
> >> I've been thinking about creating something more efficient, but I didn't 
> >> come
> >> up with something better and decided that using fd_set was less complex.
> >
> >A plain bitmap is ok for this purpose. Something like:
> >
> >static uintptr_t inet4_reserve[65536 / sizeof(uintptr_t) / CHAR_BITS];
>
> Sure, but then I would have to rewrite or open code the access macros.
> I think that it would be a lot nicer to have a more general "fdset" that
> could be included multiple times, and provided the access macros.

well, there is bitstring(3) ..?

iain