From owner-freebsd-audit Tue Apr 17 11:17: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC90E37B424 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:17:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arr@watson.org) Received: from localhost (arr@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3HIHcR88738 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:17:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from arr@watson.org) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:17:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andrew R. Reiter" To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Subject: audit work: fd_set overflow fixing Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, some more sync up patches coming soon for fixing fd_set overflow problems. after discussing with kkenn, it is felt that kqueue/kevent will be used instead of select(2). much of openbsd has been moving to poll(2) (not poll(3), afaik) as well as a couple other ways. kkenn felt (if i am incorrect let me know :-)) that if the move was just from select to poll, then it would just be better to use kqueue and kevent. i offered up the idea of doing a #ifdef conditional for using either kqueue or poll... but im not sure this is beneficial. anyway, im posting this here for comments prior to doing the patches :-) thanks, andrew *-------------................................................. | Andrew R. Reiter | arr@fledge.watson.org | "It requires a very unusual mind | to undertake the analysis of the obvious" -- A.N. Whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message