[PATCH] Increased winsock2 maximum sockets

[Ben Shefte]

Maximised socket amount substantially to allow games and streaming applications that fail after using 128 sockets.

reference:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14471964/fd-size-and-maximum-number-of-s...

Signed-off-by: Ben Shefte
---
 dlls/ws2_32/socket.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dlls/ws2_32/socket.c b/dlls/ws2_32/socket.c
index fe7e4fb3464..a44c38285cc 100644
--- a/dlls/ws2_32/socket.c
+++ b/dlls/ws2_32/socket.c
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ static BOOL socket_list_remove( SOCKET socket )
     return FALSE;
 }

-#define MAX_SOCKETS_PER_PROCESS      128     /* reasonable guess */
+#define MAX_SOCKETS_PER_PROCESS      32767     /* reasonable guess */
 #define MAX_UDP_DATAGRAM             1024
 static INT WINAPI WSA_DefaultBlockingHook( FARPROC x );

[Zebediah Figura (she/her)]

On 1/25/22 08:26, Ben Shefte wrote:
> Maximised socket amount substantially to allow games and streaming applications that fail after using 128 sockets.
>
> reference:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14471964/fd-size-and-maximum-number-of-s...
> Signed-off-by: Ben Shefte
>
> dlls/ws2_32/socket.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/dlls/ws2_32/socket.c b/dlls/ws2_32/socket.c
> index fe7e4fb3464..a44c38285cc 100644
> --- a/dlls/ws2_32/socket.c
> +++ b/dlls/ws2_32/socket.c
> @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ static BOOL socket_list_remove( SOCKET socket )
>       return FALSE;
>   }
>
> -#define MAX_SOCKETS_PER_PROCESS      128     /* reasonable guess */
> +#define MAX_SOCKETS_PER_PROCESS      32767     /* reasonable guess */
>   #define MAX_UDP_DATAGRAM             1024
>   static INT WINAPI WSA_DefaultBlockingHook( FARPROC x );

This could do with some tests, and in particular tests for different 
version numbers passed to WSAStartup().

While you're at it, I think there's no reason to keep this in a #define 
near the top of the file; it's only used in one place.

Also, do you have a specific application that requires this?