[Boost-users] *NIX: Boost ASIO and file descriptor limits

Hello list, I have a question regarding the system limit on a *NIX system for the maximum open file descriptors that a process may have open. If you were using the boost asio library to design a server application how would you go about and extend the server to handle more than the 1024 file descriptor limit. The common approach on *nix systems is to fork(2) the process and have the child accept the client connections and have the parent process inform the child process when the listening socket has clients waiting to be accepted. My question is how would I achieve a similar design approach. Any comments or ideas are welcome. Kind Regards, Etienne Pretorius.