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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:26:41 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bug in 1.3.3 2000/NT (probably socket())
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 03:45:49PM -0400, Eric Mandel wrote:
>On Oct 18, Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com> wrote:
>>>The program works correctly under Cygwin 1.3.2 (NT and 2000) but not
>>>under Cygwin 1.3.3 (NT or 2000). (It also works under Solaris 5.8).
>>>Under 1.3.3, select() returns an error each time it is called:
>>>
>>>       select(): bad file number
>> 
>> Try a snapshot.
>
>As requested, we tried running the test server program (as well as our
>real software suite from which the test is culled) on both the 10/16
>and 10/18 snapshots, but without success.
>
>I append our original e-mail containing a description of the problem
>and the test program.
>  /* init select parameters */

>  width = getdtablesize();
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is your problem.

This should be FD_SETSIZE.

You can't assume that getdtablesize() == FD_SETSIZE.

cgf

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