Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/squid/squid/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.42.2.26
diff -u -r1.42.2.26 configure.in
--- configure.in	12 Sep 2002 21:45:44 -0000	1.42.2.26
+++ configure.in	15 Sep 2002 21:54:08 -0000
@@ -1072,6 +1072,10 @@
   fi
 ])
 
+AC_ARG_WITH(filedescs,
+[  --with-filedescs=NUMBER Force squid to support NUMBER filedescriptors],
+[ squid_filedescs_num=$withval ])
+
 # Force some compilers to use ANSI features
 #
 case "$host" in
@@ -1830,17 +1834,22 @@
 AC_MSG_RESULT($DEFAULT_FD_SETSIZE)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DEFAULT_FD_SETSIZE, $DEFAULT_FD_SETSIZE)
 
+
 dnl Not cached since people are likely to tune this
 AC_MSG_CHECKING(Maximum number of filedescriptors we can open)
 dnl damn! FreeBSD's pthreads breaks dup2().
-TLDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
-case $host in
-i386-unknown-freebsd*)
-    if echo "$LDFLAGS" | grep -q pthread; then
-	LDFLAGS=`echo $LDFLAGS | sed -e "s/-pthread//"`
-    fi
-esac
-AC_TRY_RUN([
+if test -n "$squid_filedescs_num" ; then
+  SQUID_MAXFD=$squid_filedescs_num
+  AC_MSG_RESULT($SQUID_MAXFD (user-forced))
+else
+  TLDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
+  case $host in
+  i386-unknown-freebsd*)
+      if echo "$LDFLAGS" | grep -q pthread; then
+  	LDFLAGS=`echo $LDFLAGS | sed -e "s/-pthread//"`
+      fi
+  esac
+  AC_TRY_RUN([
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>	/* needed on FreeBSD */
@@ -1896,11 +1905,12 @@
 	fprintf (fp, "%d\n", i);
 	exit(0);
 }
-],
-SQUID_MAXFD=`cat conftestval`,
-SQUID_MAXFD=256,
-SQUID_MAXFD=256)
-AC_MSG_RESULT($SQUID_MAXFD)
+  ],
+  SQUID_MAXFD=`cat conftestval`,
+  SQUID_MAXFD=256,
+  SQUID_MAXFD=256)
+  AC_MSG_RESULT($SQUID_MAXFD)
+fi
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(SQUID_MAXFD, $SQUID_MAXFD)
 if test "$SQUID_MAXFD" -lt 512 ; then
     echo "WARNING: $SQUID_MAXFD may not be enough filedescriptors if your"