Sure, this is bad input, but it crashes strace, which I don't think it ought to. Running it in gdb shows nothing useful
#include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/select.h> int main() { int numFdBits = 232321; fd_set readableMask; fd_set writableMask; fd_set exceptionalMask; struct timeval timePtr; select( numFdBits, &readableMask, &writableMask, &exceptionalMask, &timePtr); } -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]