To: stunnel-users@mirt.net
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:18:21 +0200
From: Steven Van Acker (deepstar@ulyssis.org)
Subject: Patch for stunnel 4.05 to use poll() instead of select()

Hi,

I have made a patch to allow more connections through stunnel by using
poll() instead of select().
There already is such a patch for stunnel 4.04 by David A. Jenkins, but
not for 4.05.
This patch is a completely new patch. I have tried to change as little
as possible of the original stunnel code to make it easier to apply the
patch to other versions.

The patch can be found at :
 http://deepstar.ekonomika.be/Projects/patches/stunnel-4.05.with.poll.not.select.patch.gz
More information here:
 http://deepstar.ekonomika.be/Projects/patches/stunnel-4.05.with.poll.not.select.patch.txt



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This is a patch for stunnel 4.05, that uses poll() instead of select(),
to get around the fdset limit when using select(). Unlike select(), 
poll() can watch a (semi) ulimited number of filedescriptors, instead of "just" 1024.
The patch uses binary insert and binary sort to speed up the lookups in the filedescriptor lists.

usage:

gunzip stunnel-4.05.with.poll.not.select.patch.gz 
cd stunnel-4.05/
patch -p1 < ../stunnel-4.05.with.poll.not.select.patch

I release this patch under the GPL license.

greets,
Steven Van Acker <deepstar@ulyssis.org>