Bug 77678 - Add a cautionary note to select man page
Summary: Add a cautionary note to select man page
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man-pages
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-11 22:23 UTC by Ben Woodard
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:48 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: 1.67
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-08-20 18:41:52 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Add's a cautionary note to the select man page. (482 bytes, patch)
2002-11-11 22:24 UTC, Ben Woodard
no flags Details | Diff

Description Ben Woodard 2002-11-11 22:23:06 UTC
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:

Comment 1 Ben Woodard 2002-11-11 22:24:29 UTC
Created attachment 84586 [details]
Add's a cautionary note to the select man page.

Comment 2 Eido Inoue 2004-08-20 18:41:52 UTC
upstream in 1.67 it appears.


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