Hello, James Clarke, on Sat 23 Apr 2016 14:44:52 +0100, wrote: > I have attached a proposed patch which ensures XFD_SETSIZE never > exceeds FD_SETSIZE.
Did you test it? AIUI, nothing uses XFD_SETSIZE actually, it's just the default value that X uses for FD_SETSIZE in case it's not already defined. I.e. your change doesn't actually change anything: if FD_SETSIZE is define on poll.h inclusion, it'll be used, not 512. What probably actually breaks is the (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 8 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 8))) || lines when FD_SETSIZE is not big enough. Probably these can be made conditioned by the value of FD_SETSIZE, something like: #if FD_SETSIZE >= 512 #define XFD_ANYSET_512(p) \ ((howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 8 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 8))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 9 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 9))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 10 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 10))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 11 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 11))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 12 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 12))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 13 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 13))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 14 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 14))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 15 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 15)))) #else #define XFD_ANYSET_512(p) 0 #endif #define XFD_ANYSET(p) \ ((howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 0 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 0))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 1 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 1))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 2 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 2))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 3 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 3))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 4 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 4))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 5 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 5))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 6 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 6))) || \ (howmany(FD_SETSIZE, NFDBITS) > 7 && (__XFDS_BITS(p, 7))) || \ XFD_ANYSET_512(p)) Samuel