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Subject: Re: FD_SETSIZE
In-Reply-To: <199806050132.LAA04655@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jun 5, 98 11:32:25 am"
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
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Bruce Evans writes:
> >> >> I didn't merge the kernel changes because they wouldn't have fixed a bug.
> >> >
> >> >Which one bug? Bug in select()?
> >> 
> >> No bug.  Never fix a working system.
> >
> >Well, I was under impression that it's not a bug fix, but rather an
> >improvement :-) And there's nothing wrong with improving a working system.
> 
> I actually follow a slightly different rule: never fix more than one
> version of a working system :-).
> 
> >Anyway, in lots of cases FD_SETSIZE defined to 256 is not enough.
> >I thought, it would simply be smart to merge this change from
> >-current, since it's been working over there for about a year now?
> 
> The userland change would give incompatible libraries according to
> `zgrep fd_set /usr/share/man/man3/*'.  This didn't seem to cause any
> problems in -current when the libc major wasn't bumped, but -stable
> should be stabler.

Grrr .... Right :-) Most definitely it will break libc_r and librpc
(at very least).
Well, I guess I'm outa luck.

> 
> Bruce
> 

-- dima

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