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Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finis


From: Pino Toscano
Subject: Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:08:21 +0100
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Alle mercoledì 13 febbraio 2013, Svante Signell ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 23:52 +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > Alle martedì 12 febbraio 2013, Svante Signell ha scritto:
> > >  * change the FD_SETSIZE upper value check to larger than or
> > >  equal
> > > 
> > > from larger than.
> > > (from POSIX definition of select:
> > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/functions/select.h
> > > tml )
> > 
> > It's
> > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/select.ht
> > ml
> > 
> >  actually, and it says:
> > |[EINVAL]
> > |
> > |    The nfds argument is less than 0 or greater than FD_SETSIZE.
> > 
> > and not "greater or equal than", so it allows FD_SETSIZE.
> > (And logically, if a fdset_t can contain at most FD_SETSIZE fd's,
> > you need to allow FD_SETSIZE as maximum number of fd's.)
> > 
> > Please remove this change, which is wrong.
> 
> Then you have to convince the Linux man page and the python3.2
> developers too. From python3.2:
> ./Include/fileobject.h: #define _PyIsSelectable_fd(FD) (((FD) >= 0)
> && ((FD) < FD_SETSIZE))

Feel free to open bugs about them, then.

-- 
Pino Toscano

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