Hi,
Manfred spotted it - it was nfds = 0 that would cause overflow. Dumb I was
checking the entire range +/-2G and forgetting about the middle :)
Here is the fix (return 0 like other Unices do if nfds = 0).
Regards,
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Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com
Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796
Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran
--- select.c.0 Mon Jan 31 08:48:52 2000
+++ select.c Mon Jan 31 08:51:06 2000
@@ -391,6 +391,9 @@
poll_table *wait_table = NULL, *wait = NULL;
int nchunks, nleft;
+ if (nfds == 0)
+ return 0;
+
/* Do a sanity check on nfds ... */
if (nfds > current->files->max_fds)
return -EINVAL;
-
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