Under winsock2, what alternative is there to select()?

As you have seen select() has a max limit for the number of sockets it can handle in a single call. If scalability is an issue for you then you should use Overlapped I/O or I/O Completion Ports instead. That way, you can issue read/write operations on individual sockets when needed and the OS will notify you when the work is finished, there is no need to poll for it.

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