Re: More FD's in 2.0.33

Olivier Galibert (galibert@kluster.com)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 02:02:05 +0100


On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 10:33:43AM +1000, Dancer wrote:
> If you change the size of an fd_set in the kernel, you need to recompile
> anything that uses select(), otherwise you stand a good chance of
> blowing away the application's stack, IIRC.

Really ? Isn't the first parameter of select() there to prevent that ?

I thought the kernel had no reason to know about the size of a fd_set
no matter what.

OG.

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