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RE: SECURITY.NNOV: Multiple applications fd_set structure bitmap array index overflow Jan 29 2005 03:33AM
David LeBlanc (dleblanc exchange microsoft com) (1 replies)

-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Miller [mailto:djm (at) mindrot (dot) org [email concealed]] said:

>This effectively limits select to a maximum of FD_SETSIZE descriptors
on Windows. I don't think that this limitiation exists on other
platforms.

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Note the bit where it says:

#ifndef FD_SETSIZE
#define FD_SETSIZE 64
#endif /* FD_SETSIZE */

So to make FD_SETSIZE any arbitrarily large value up to whatever your
system can handle, you just redefine FD_SETSIZE before you #include
winsock.h.

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Re: SECURITY.NNOV: Multiple applications fd_set structure bitmap array index overflow Jan 29 2005 08:05PM
Lee Dilkie (lee_dilkie mitel com) (1 replies)

Re: SECURITY.NNOV: Multiple applications fd_set structure bitmap array index overflow Jan 30 2005 05:43PM
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