Re: More FD's in 2.0.33

Dancer (dancer@brisnet.org.au)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 11:08:14 +1000

Doesn't some software just set that parameter to all sorts of funny
values? I've always found the honesty of software dealing with that
parameter to be dubious.

In short, yes, that is what that parameter is there for...but it is not
necessarily set to anything sane, IMO.

D

Olivier Galibert wrote:
>
> 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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