[463] in bugtraq
Re: 8lgm's SCO "at" hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A. Stewart)
Sun Dec 11 19:43:58 1994
From: "Christopher A. Stewart" <stewart@networx.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 15:14:35 +0800
To: Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
Cc: John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca>, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199412111315.AA04456@mail.fwi.uva.nl>
Reply-To: stewart@networx.com
>>>>> "Casper" == Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl> writes:
[Stuff deleted]
Casper> I've only seen something like this break once, bonus
Casper> points for who can tell why the following is wrong:
Casper> select(getdtablesize(), &readfds, &writefds,
Casper> &exceptfds, &timeout);
Casper> Casper
Since RLIMIT_NOFILE is not a constant, if a program changes it between
the formation of the fdsets and calling it could cause problems,
mostly would, if RLIMIT_NOFILE was increased..
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