diff --git a/include/sys/select.h b/include/sys/select.h
index 956b7d1cdf..01997e9037 100644
--- a/include/sys/select.h
+++ b/include/sys/select.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 
 #include <nuttx/config.h>
 
+#include <limits.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@
 
 /* Get the total number of descriptors that we will have to support */
 
-#define FD_SETSIZE 256
+#define FD_SETSIZE OPEN_MAX
 
 /* We will use a 32-bit bitsets to represent the set of descriptors.  How
  * many uint32_t's do we need to span all descriptors?
diff --git a/libs/libc/unistd/Kconfig b/libs/libc/unistd/Kconfig
index 7cc6bacd23..10f92ae85a 100644
--- a/libs/libc/unistd/Kconfig
+++ b/libs/libc/unistd/Kconfig
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ config LIBC_HOSTNAME
 
 config LIBC_OPEN_MAX
 	int "OPEN_MAX for this device"
-	default 255
+	default 256
 	---help---
 		The maximum number of files that a process can have open
 		at any time.  Must not be less than _POSIX_OPEN_MAX.