In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Here is a small bug (?) in pth. For example, suppose in a normal UNIX
> environment you call the sendto() function with a file descriptor of -1.
> The result is that -1 is returned with errno = EBADF (bad file descriptor).
>
> However, if you call pth_sendto() with fd equal to -1, you get a core
> dump, because pth_sendto_ev() calls FD_SET(fd, &fds) without checking
> that fd is valid. On FreeBSD at least, this sets a bit outside of the
> "fds" memory space and corrupts the stack.
>
> Perhaps in pth_sendto_ev() (and others?) the fd should first be checked
> to be between zero and FD_SETSIZE-1 before doing anything else with it.
Now done in Pth 1.4.1. Thanks for your feedback.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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