From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: If you recompile your kernel to allow >1024 file descritors and you leave glibc the same and then you try to use select on a file descriptor >1024 then select corrupts memory. It was decided that because of the unusual setup for this it really wasn't a bug that should be fixed in glibc. However, documenting around it is probably a good idea. Attached is a patch to the manpage. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Note that man page doesn't warn you about the possible problems 2. 3. Additional info:
Created attachment 84586 [details] Add's a cautionary note to the select man page.
upstream in 1.67 it appears.