Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > >Due to the 32-bit ABI's stdio file descriptor limit, an interposer is > >being used to F_DUPFD non-stdio file descriptors to 256 and above. This > >mitigates a problem with 3rd party modules and plugins that use > >fopen(3C), et al. streams in processes such as Apache HTTP Server that > >open a large number of file descriptors. Unfortunately, using the > >interposer causes failures when a child process (e.g. CGI program) > >subsequently invokes telnet(1). If telnet passed the correct nfds value > >to select(3C), that failure would be eliminated. > > In build 39 of Nevada we provide a standard interposer, > /usr/lib/extendedFILE.so, which has a similar, but different property.
Umpf... for the same reason we were thinking about making the stdio-replacement API in libast public since it it supports an almost unlimited number of stdio channels... ---- Bye, Roland P.S.: Reply-To: set to ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org as this is more or less libast-related -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
