oops, I just thought... nfds=0 can be used as a timeout facility, stand by
for a proper fix...
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 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,
> ------
> Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com
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>
> --- 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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