On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Dave Shield <d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk>wrote:
> On 10 March 2011 20:17, Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org> wrote:
> > You might have missed this patch, reporting a bug in 5.5, 5.6 and trunk:
> >
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=312694&aid=3203806&group_id=12694
> .
>
>
> Correct - I hadn't spotted that.
> I'll have a proper look at it in the morning.
>
> Question:
> Is this
> a) a sufficiently significant problem,
> and/or
> b) a sufficiently trivial fix
>
> to warrent including in 5.5.1 at this late stage?
>
To answer your questions: that patch (already applied on trunk and 5.6
branch) contains a fix for a potential memory corruption problem. This issue
only affects those users that use a large number of file descriptors (more
than FD_SETSIZE).
Bart.
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