Hello Chicken users,
Recently a buffer overrun error was discovered in Chicken's thread
scheduler. This buffer overrun is triggered on UNIX-like OSes when a
file descriptor with an integer value higher than FD_SETSIZE gets
opened due to the way the POSIX select() function is currently being
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:33:28PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
Currently a patch is being developed. In the meanwhile an effective
workaround is to limit the maximum number of open descriptors using
the Unix ulimit -n command.
For those feeling adventurous, please test the attached patch. We are
