Markus Duft wrote: > Hi! > > I have a more or less trivial patch for the nanosleep replacement for > interix. The problem I ran into is, that select() has a bug, making it fail > with "bad address" if the number of fd's to select on is zero. Setting the > set-size to 1 solves the problem, and should not damage anything else around > there, since all the sets are NULL anyway. > > The patch can be found here: > http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/portage-prefix/sys-apps/coreutils/files/coreutils-6.12-interix-sleep.patch > > If you need more info, please contact me. > > Cheers, Markus Duft
That looks fine as the first param to select is the highest-numbered file descriptor + 1. Arguably 1 is more correct than 0. Note this function is now part of gnulib (CCd). cheers, Pádraig.
