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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:42:57 -0400
From:      Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: select problems ( was Re: weird XFree86 3.3.6 behavior...)
Message-ID:  <20000727174257.A19445@radicalmedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <14720.41641.666813.600170@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from Andrew Gallatin on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 05:06:55PM -0400
References:  <20000727022930.A9638@radicalmedia.com> <20000727000033.A44502@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000727035128.A9982@radicalmedia.com> <20000727164833.A18644@radicalmedia.com> <14720.41641.666813.600170@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 05:06:55PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> 32 is the number of bits in an int.

Or, (life + universe + everything) - 10
:)

> 
> Is the Xserver select()'ing on a real fd_set, or are they passing in an
> int?  Furthermore, is the code using FD_SET(n, p) to set the bits
> they're selecting on, or are they using (1 << fd).

They're using real fd_sets as args to select, however it appears they are 
doing mask arithmetic with ints.  This may be the problem, since an fd_set
on Alpha is 64 bits.  I'll try a little experiment...

> 
> If the latter, try changing it to use FD_SET (or at least use (1L << fd)) 
> 
> Also, there was a bug in select (both in the kernel & in
> /usr/include/sys/types.h) which Peter Wemm fixed on Feb. 20.  
> Was this X server really compiled on a 4.0-RELEASE or newer system?
> 
> Drew
> 

What was the nature of this bug you mention?  And yes, I built X from the
ports collection on 4.0-RELEASE.

Cheers,
-Mark



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